{"product_id":"hotel-cartagena-4-9781913193546","title":"Hotel Cartagena, 4","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChastity Riley and her friends are held hostage in a hotel bar by twelve armed men set on revenge, in a searing, breathtakingly original new thriller from the 'Queen of Krimi'.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-is sense of time and space ... a palpable hit' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers ... a truly unique voice in crime fiction' \u003cb\u003eGraeme Macrae Burnet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'If Philip Marlowe and Bernie Gunther had a literary love child, it might just explain Chastity Riley - Simone Buchholz's tough, acerbic, utterly engaging central character' \u003cb\u003eWilliam Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e _______________ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a young man whose life - and family - have been destroyed by Hoogsmart's actions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the police looking on from outside - their colleagues' lives at stake - and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill from an unexpected case of sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation ... and a devastating outcome for the team ... all live streamed in a terrifying bid for revenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Crackling with energy and populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, \u003ci\u003eHotel Cartagena\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing, relevant thriller that will leave you breathless. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e _______________ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Chastity Riley series\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Caustic, incisive prose. A street-smart, gutsy heroine. A timely and staggeringly stylish thriller' \u003cb\u003eWill Carver\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'With plenty of dry humour and a good old dash of despair, Simone Buchholz is an unconventional, refreshing new voice' \u003cb\u003eCrime Fiction Lover\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Lyrical and pithy' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'With brief, pacy chapters and fizzling dialogue, this almost feels like American procedural noir and not a translation' \u003cb\u003eMaxim Jakubowski, Crime Time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'There is a fantastic pace to the story which keeps you hooked from the first sentence all the way to the end ... a unique voice that delivers a stylish story' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Books Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'A smart and witty book that shines a probing spotlight on society' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultureFly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e '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' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoethe Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Stripped back in style and deadpan in voice ... a scintillating romp around the German criminal underworld and back' \u003cb\u003eDoug Johnstone, \u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e '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. 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