{"product_id":"sharks-the-fiercely-original-slick-and-darkly-funny-new-chastity-riley-thriller-9781917764087","title":"Sharks: The Fiercely Original, Slick and Darkly Funny New Chastity Riley Thriller...","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'As much a character study as the story of a crime ... like a flipbook, full of startling images and sudden movements, that will thrill cynics and romantics alike' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eLeye Adenle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eRod Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Such a revelation  \u003cb\u003eLaura Lippman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**The Chastity Riley series WON the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e____\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg's so-called 'problem area', an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProsecutor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e_______\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Richly entertaining, wickedly cutting, to the point and funny. The perfect example of a crime novel that is literally pacy and has something to say, because you know Buchholz cares about society and Hamburg, and it shows in her writing' \u003cb\u003ePaul Burke, CrimeTime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Chastity Riley series: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A dark treat ... memorable modern noir, and a fascinating portrait of seedy life in Hamburg' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Simone Buchholz can make you grin, gasp or gag at will' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully concise, with commendably sparse prose, dark humour and an appealing protagonist ... uncompromising, provocative and righteously fierce' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written in cool, witty prose' \u003cb\u003eN.J. Cooper, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e German-American Chastity Riley [is] snooty, churlish, sarcastic, sometimes drunk and always inappropriate. The whole series breaks the boundaries of typical crime novels  \u003cb\u003eRomy Hausmann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A distinctive voice, and a flawed but compelling protagonist ... style and sass and St Pauli  \u003cb\u003eWill Carver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers  \u003cb\u003eGraeme Macrae Burnet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Buchholz's work remains as persuasive as ever  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space ... a palpable hit  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndependent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With brief, pacy chapters and fizzling dialogue, this almost feels like American procedural noir and not a translation  \u003cb\u003eMaxim Jakubowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There is a fantastic pace to the story ... a unique voice that delivers a stylish story  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNB Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A real blast of adrenaline  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Orenda Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917764087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.79h x 5.18w x 0.60d","brand":"Simone Buchholz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774265979061,"sku":"9781917764087","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sharks-the-fiercely-original-slick-and-darkly-funny-new-chastity-riley-thriller-9781917764087","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}