| Title | : | Mexico Street |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Simone Buchholz |
| Release | : | 2020-01-05 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Women Sleuths, Books, Mysteries & Thrillers |
| Size | : | 966482 |
| 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... ‘ Another brilliant adventure in the company of Chastity Riley, the coolest character in crime fiction. Darkly funny and written with a huge heart' Doug Johnstone, Big Issue ‘ Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers ... a truly unique voice in crime fiction' Graeme Macrae Burnet ‘ Caustic, incisive prose. A street-smart, gutsy heroine. A timely and staggeringly stylish thriller' Will Carver ***WINNER of the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2022*** ***WINNER of the German Crime Book of the Year Award*** _______________ Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched. Only this car isn' t empty. The body of Nouri Saroukhan – prodigal son of the Bremen clan – is soon discovered, and the case becomes a homicide. Public prosecutor Chastity Riley is handed the investigation, which takes her deep into a criminal underground that snakes beneath the whole of Germany. And as details of Nouri' s background, including an illicit relationship with the mysterious Aliza, emerge, it becomes clear that these are not random attacks, and there are more on the cards... _______________ Praise for the Chastity Riley series... 'Combines nail-biting tension with off-beat humor ... Elmore Leonard fans will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly 'Buchholz doles out delicious black humor ... interwoven in a manner that ramps up the intrigue and tension' Foreword Reviews ‘ A stylish, whip-smart thriller' Russel McLean ‘ Fierce enough to stab the heart' Spectator ‘ Sharp and unrelenting' CultureFly ‘ Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space' Financial Times ‘ Deeply moody, atmospheric and evocative' Blue Book Balloon ‘ An unconventional, refreshing new voice' Crime Fiction Lover ‘ 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 ‘ By turns lyrical and pithy, this adventure set in the melting pot of contemporary Hamburg has a plot and a sensibility that both owe something to mind-altering substances. Lots of fun' Sunday Times ‘ Great sparkling energy, humour and stylistic verve and the story itself is gripping and pacey' Rosie Goldsmith ‘ A must-read, stylish and highly original take on the detective novel, written with great skill and popping with great characters' |
