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In Hamburg's troubled Wilhelmsburg district, Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a brutal double murder amid corruption and gentrification. Battling personal demons and powerful foes, she fights to expose a city's dark secrets. Germany's Queen of Krimi returns with the caustically funny, breathtakingly dark next instalment in an addictive series...
`For the first time in a long time, I found a book I simply couldn't put down - and I didn't want it to end. There really should be a word for the sadness you feel when you're nearing the end of a truly fantastic read. Sharks is that kind of book´ Leye Adenle
`Taut, compulsive and laced with humour as dark as its setting, Sharks raises the bar again for one of my favourite series. Chastity Riley is the perfect anti-hero for our times, and Simone Buchholz is the real deal´ Rod Reynolds
`Simone Buchholz can make you grin, gasp or gag at will´ The Times
`Such a revelation´ Laura Lippman
**The Chastity Riley series WON the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger**
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In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg's so-called 'problem area', an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict villa.
Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case, and quickly finds herself waist-deep in a murky tangle of city planners, shady investors and vanishing officials. The gentrification machine is rolling on, and someone is sending a very clear message.
As November fog settles over the city, Chastity is coughing up blood, her personal life is a slow-motion disaster, and her former colleague, Faller, won't stop interfering. But nothing's going to stop her from cutting through the lies - not even the sharks circling ever closer.
Dark, caustic and piercing, Sharks is a searing investigation into greed, power, and the price of resistance in a city devouring itself, from one of Germany's finest, most original crime writers.
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Praise for the Chastity Riley series:
`A dark treat ... memorable modern noir, and a fascinating portrait of seedy life in Hamburg´ Telegraph
`Beautifully concise, with commendably sparse prose, dark humour and an appealing protagonist ... uncompromising, provocative and righteously fierce´ Guardian
`Beautifully written in cool, witty prose´ N.J. Cooper, Literary Review
`German-American Chastity Riley [is] snooty, churlish, sarcastic, sometimes drunk and always inappropriate. The whole series breaks the boundaries of typical crime novels´ Romy Hausmann
`A distinctive voice, and a flawed but compelling protagonist ... style and sass and St Pauli´ Will Carver
`Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose´ Observer
`Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers´ Graeme Macrae Burnet
`Buchholz's work remains as persuasive as ever´ Financial Times
`Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space ... a palpable hit´ Independent
`With brief, pacy chapters and fizzling dialogue, this almost feels like American procedural noir and not a translation´ Maxim Jakubowski
`There is a fantastic pace to the story ... a unique voice that delivers a stylish story´ NB Magazine
`A smart and witty book that shines a probing spotlight on society´ CultureFly
`A must-read, stylish and highly original take on the detective novel´ Judith O'Reilly
`A real blast of adrenaline´ Big Issue
`Elmore Leonard fans will be enthralled´ Publishers Weekly
`Buchholz doles out delicious black humour [and] ramps up the intrigue and tension´ Foreword Reviews
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- Uitgeverij:
Inhoud
- Aantal bladzijden:
- 276
- Taal:
- Engels
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Eigenschappen
- Productcode (EAN):
- 9781917764087
- Verschijningsdatum:
- 9/06/2026
- Uitvoering:
- Paperback
- Formaat:
- Trade paperback (VS)
- Afmetingen:
- 127 mm x 197 mm
- Gewicht:
- 164 g
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