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The hair stands up on the back of my neck and I get an age-old feeling in my belly. Like there’s a fight ahead. Like something’s really about to go off…

After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster’s crown jewels, the career of Hamburg’s most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nose dive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital – almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, and refusing to speak in anything other than riddles – Chastity’s instinct for the big, exciting case kicks in.
Using all her powers of persuasion, she soon gains her charge’s confidence, and finds herself on the trail to Leipzig, a new ally, and a whole heap of lethal synthetic drugs. When she discovers that a friend and former colleague is trying to bring down Hamburg’s Albanian mafia kingpin single-handedly, it looks like Chas Riley’s dull life on witness protection really has been short-lived…
Fresh, fiendishly fast-paced and full of devious twists and all the hard-boiled poetry and acerbic wit of the best noir, Blue Night marks the stunning start of a brilliant new crime series, from one of Germany’s bestselling authors.


‘Stripped back in style and deadpan in voice, Blue Night is a scintillating romp around the German criminal underworld and back’ Doug Johnston, The Big Issue

'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’ Times Crime Club

‘Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-is sense of time and space. Blue Night is a palpable hit’ Barry Forshaw

‘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. Disgraced state prosecutor Chastity Riley chases round the dive bars of the port city pursuing and being pursued by a beguiling cast of cops, criminals and chums, delivering scalding one-liners as she goes. Lots of fun’ Times Crime Club

‘Blue Night has great sparkling energy, humour and stylistic verve … and the story itself is gripping and pacey’ Rosie Goldsmith, European Literature Network

‘A must-read, stylish and highly original take on the detective novel, written with great skill and popping with great characters’ Judith O’Reilly, author of Killing State

'Constantly surprising, Blue Night is an original, firecracker of a read' Liz Robinson

‘Blue Night has great sparkling energy, humour and stylistic verve … and the story itself is gripping and pacey' Rosie Goldsmith, European Literature Network

‘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’ William Rya

In Hamburg brennen die Autos. Jede Nacht, wahllos angezündet. Aber in dieser einen Nacht am Mexikoring, einem Bürohochhäuserghetto im Norden der Stadt, sitzt noch jemand in seinem Fiat, als der anfängt zu brennen: Nouri Saroukhan, der verlorene Sohn eines Clans aus Bremen. War er es leid, vor seiner Familie davonzulaufen? Hat die ihn in Brand setzen lassen? Und was ist da los, wenn die Gangsterkinder von der Weser neuerdings an der Alster sterben?

Staatsanwältin Chastity Riley taucht tief ein in die Welt der Clan-Familien. Nach und nach erschließen sich ihr die weitverzweigten kriminellen Strukturen, die sich durch ganz Deutschland ziehen. Und sie bekommt Einblick in Nouri Saroukhans Geschichte. Es ist die Geschichte eines Ausbruchs zu einem hohen Preis. Und es ist die Geschichte einer Liebe: von Nouri und Aliza, die nicht zusammenkommen durften und in ein anderes Leben türmten, das aber kein besseres war. Weiß Aliza, was mit Nouri am Mexikoring passiert ist?

Staatsanwältin Chastity Riley haut ab nach Glasgow. Da ist nämlich erstens dieser Brief von einem Anwalt, der sie in die Geburtsstadt ihres Ur-Urgroßvaters lockt. Und zweitens ist ihr Leben in Hamburg in einer traurigen Sackgasse angelangt. In der rauen, schottischen Stadt trifft sie auf Tom, der den Schlüssel zum Familiengeheimnis der Rileys kennt – einem Panorama aus Gewalt und Verlust. Davon hatte sie zwar immer eine Ahnung, aber sie hat nie gewagt, sich den schmerzhaften Wahrheiten über sich selbst zu stellen. Jetzt helfen ihr ausreichend Whisky und ein paar Gespenster dabei, es doch zu tun.

On a warm September morning, an unconscious man is found in a cage at the entrance to the offices of one of Germany's biggest magazines. He's soon identified as a manager of the company, and he's been tortured. Three days later, another manager appears in a similar way.

Chastity Riley and her new colleague Ivo Stepanovic are tasked with uncovering the truth behind the attacks, an investigation that goes far beyond the revenge they first suspect … to the dubious past shared by both victims. Travelling to the south of Germany, they step into the hothouse world of boarding schools, where secrets are currency, and monsters are bred … monsters who will stop at nothing to protect themselves.

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.
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.
Crackling with energy and populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, Hotel Cartagena is a searing, relevant thriller that will leave you breathless.

Cool bis zum Anschlag und mit ganz viel Herz, so sind die Menschen auf St. Pauli – und so ist auch Staatsanwältin Chas Riley, die gnadenlos romantisch wird, wenn es um ihren Kiez geht. Es ist Frühling in Hamburg, und alles könnte so schön sein – wäre da nicht ein rätselhafter Killer, der tote Frauen an der Elbe drapiert. Um ihn zu stoppen, muss Chas am Ende dahin gehen, wo es besonders weh tut: in die Abgründe der eigenen Vergangenheit …