Get ALL FIVE dark, caustically funny, shocking thrillers in Simone Buchholz's international, bestselling Chastity Rileyseries in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set!Award-winning German noir an addictive, breathtakingly original detective series. State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her team investigate a series of dark crimes in Hamburg. From mafia networks and kidnappings to arson attacks and hostage situations, chain-smoking Chastity is drawn into some of the city's most dangerous cases. '[ A] nerve-racking narrative [ with] a cunning climax that is shocking and deeply romantic' The Times'Fierce enough to stab the heart' Spectator'A stylish, whip-smart thriller' Herald Scotland----------------------------------------Blue Night (Book 1)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley has been side-lined to prevent her from causing trouble, but her new job turns out to be far from dull when she finds herself involved in taking down an Albanian mafia kingpin. First in an addictive, wildly original series from the Queen of Krimi Beton Rouge (Book 2)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her new sidekick Ivo investigate the case of newspaper executives who have been caged and tortured outside their offices on a trail that leads them to the hothouse world of boarding schools and some harrowing secrets Mexico Street (Book 3)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-threatening discovery involving criminal gangs and a very illicit love story Hotel Cartagena (Book 4)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her friends are held hostage in a hotel bar by twelve armed men set on revenge, in a searing, breathtakingly original, and unexpectedly moving new thriller from the 'Queen of Krimi' WINNER of the CWA Crime in Translation DaggerRiver Clyde (Book 5)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley travels to Scotland to face the demons of her past, as Hamburg is hit by a major arson attack. Queen of Krimi, Simone Buchholz, returns with the emotive fifth instalment in the electrifying Chastity Riley series ----------------------------------------Praise for the Chastity Riley series'Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers a truly unique voice in crime fiction' Graeme Macrae Burnet'A cunning climax that is shocking and deeply romantic' The Times'Combines nail-biting tension with off-beat humour' Publishers Weekly'Buchholz doles out delicious black humor' Foreword Reviews'Modern noir, with taut storytelling, a hard-bitten heroine, and underlying melancholy peppered with wry humour' New Zealand Listener'The coolest character in crime fiction darkly funny and written with a huge heart' Big Issue'With brief, pacy chapters and fizzling dialogue, this almost feels like American procedural noir and not a translation' Maxim Jakubowski'A smart and witty book that shines a probing spotlight on society' CultureFly'Fans of Brookmyre could do worse than checking out Simone Buchholz, a star of the German crime lit scene who has been deftly translated into English by Rachel Ward' Goethe Institute'Lyrical and pithy' Sunday Times
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