{"product_id":"9781917764087-sharks","title":"Sharks","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fiercely original, slick and darkly funny new Chastity Riley thriller…\u003cbr\u003e\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\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\n\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\n\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. \u003ci\u003eSharks\u003c\/i\u003e is that kind of book’ \u003cb\u003eLeye Adenle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Taut, compulsive and laced with humour as dark as its setting, \u003ci\u003eSharks\u003c\/i\u003e 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\n\u003cp\u003e‘Such a revelation’ \u003cb\u003eLaura Lippman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Chastity Riley series WON the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e____\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg’s so-called ‘problem area’, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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 is going to stop her from cutting through the lies, not even the sharks circling ever closer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark, caustic and piercing, \u003ci\u003eSharks\u003c\/i\u003e 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\n\u003cp\u003e____\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Chastity Riley series:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e‘Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers’ \u003cb\u003eGraeme Macrae Burnet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Buchholz’s work remains as persuasive as ever’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space … a palpable hit’\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndependent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e‘There is a fantastic pace to the story … a unique voice that delivers a stylish story’\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNB Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A real blast of adrenaline’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57327960260982,"sku":"9781917764087","price":7.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40185220_47ecf57b-a231-4d1d-b92f-159b62db6595.jpg?v=1772678476","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781917764087-sharks","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}