I just loved this book from start to finish. It seemed gauged just right, easy to read, but intelligent and interesting, and your writing just flows. I cried a lot!’
When a group of artists fight back against the Nazis, a music loving Gestapo officer makes it his mission to hunt them down.

Frieda Belinfante is the first female conductor of a professional orchestra in Europe. Openly lesbian and the daughter of a Jewish man, she refuses to work for the Nazis. Together with her artist friends; Willem Arondeus, Gerrit van der Veen, and Gerrit’s lover and ballet dancer Suzy van Hall, they plan and undertake an act of extraordinary braveness by bombing Amsterdam’s Population Register.
Arno Wolff, a charismatic and music loving Gestapo chief leads the hunt for the perpetrators. He is a family man who undertakes heinous acts whilst still believing himself to be, at his core, a good man. Betrayals, executions, treacherous journeys across Europe, and the horror of Dachau follow in the wake of his determination to apprehend and punish the artists.
Watch Andy and his wife, Sarah retracing the steps of Willem, Frieda, Gerrit and Suzy in Amsterdam
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