In the south of Hamburg, the slow train of gentrification is charging ahead unabated. But would the speculators driving it really go so far as to beat an old couple to death? The whole thing sure does look like a message. And the pigheaded officials from the planning office are making themselves scarce.
Chastity Riley’s private life doesn’t look much better. Her boyfriend Klatsche is slipping dangerously close to the circles he’d been trying to stay away from, her friend Carla has accidentally fallen pregnant, and Chastity has a new colleague who is making her nervous. And to top it all off, ex-commissioner Faller keeps meddling in her case as a private investigator. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing...
Persons
Simone Buchholz
Simone Buchholz was born in Hanau in 1972. She studied philosophy and literature and trained to be a journalist. She started writing in 2008 and her Chastity Riley series has won numerous awards. She lives in Hamburg.
Simone Buchholz was born in Hanau in 1972. She studied philosophy and literature and trained to be a journalist. She started writing in 2008 and...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
This Side of Heaven
Only the Others are Immortal
Tarik and two other men disappear without a trace on the MS Rjúkandi, a ferry on the North Atlantic. Two women, Iva and Tarik’s partner Marlin, set out to find their missing friends – and board the ship to Iceland firmly convinced that they will soon be home again. But in the first days onboard, they begin to notice strange things and a weird atmosphere: The crew is...
River Clyde
State prosecutor Chastity Riley runs off to Glasgow. Because, for one, there is that letter, written by a lawyer, that lures her to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather. And secondly, her...
English world rights (Orenda), France (L’Atalante), Denmark (Dreamlitt), Finland (Huippu)
Hotel Cartagena
A chilly hotel bar in the Port of Hamburg. Down on the docks, the lights are shimmering, above the tables are rather sparsely occupied. Suddenly the doors open, twelve heavily armed men...
English world rights (Orenda), France (L’Atalante), Denmark (Dreamlitt), Finland (Huippu)
Mexico Street
In Hamburg cars are burning. Set alight at random every night. But one night on the Mexico Ring, a ghetto of office high-rises to the north of the city, a person is still in his Fiat as it starts...
English world rights (Orenda), France (L'Atalante), Denmark (Dreamlitt), Finland (Huippu)
Beton Rouge
Chastity Riley is chasing a madman. Or at least that’s what it seems like. Because who else would lock high-ranking executives in a cage in the middle of Hamburg? And so Chastity...
English world rights (Orenda), France (L'Atalante), Italy (Emons), Denmark (Dreamlitt), Finland (Huippu)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg)
Blue Night
»Just for the record: This is an extremely strange night. And strange nights are always a harbinger.«
Due to an unfortunate incident where she convicted a...
English world rights (Orenda), France (L'Atalante), Italy (Emons), Denmark (Dreamlitt), Finnland (Huippu), Turkey (Altın Kitaplar)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg)
The Kitchen
Summer in Hamburg, it’s far too hot, but Sankt Pauli is glowing – when suddenly, a few extra feet are found floating in the Elbe. Men’s feet, to be precise, and there’s not...
English world rights (Orenda)
The Acapulco
English world rights (Orenda)