{"product_id":"9781913193157-mexico-street","title":"Mexico Street","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eHamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series  of arson attacks on cars across the city.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHamburg 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…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Another brilliant adventure in the company of Chastity Riley, the coolest character in crime fiction. Darkly funny and written with a huge heart’ \u003cb\u003eDoug Johnstone, \u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers … a truly unique voice in crime fiction’ \u003cb\u003eGraeme Macrae Burnet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Caustic, incisive prose. A street-smart, gutsy heroine. A timely and staggeringly stylish thriller’ \u003cb\u003eWill Carver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***WINNER of the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2022***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***WINNER of the German Crime Book of the Year Award***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e _______________\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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…\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e _______________\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Chastity Riley series…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Combines nail-biting tension with off-beat humor . Elmore Leonard fans will be enthralled' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Buchholz doles out delicious black humor . interwoven in a manner that ramps up the intrigue and tension' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A stylish, whip-smart thriller’ \u003cb\u003eRussel McLean\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Fierce enough to stab the heart’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Sharp and unrelenting’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultureFly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Deeply moody, atmospheric and evocative’ \u003cb\u003eBlue Book Balloon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘An unconventional, refreshing new voice’ \u003cb\u003eCrime Fiction Lover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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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