The Chastity Reloaded series
By Simone Buchholz and Rachel Ward
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Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women ... as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge. Germany's Queen of Krimi returns with the darkly funny, mesmerizingly dark next instalment in an addictive series...
`Blends black comedy with real anger to produce a serious indictment of the male gaze. Simone Buchholz can make you grin, gasp or gag at will Mark Sanderson, The Times
`Such a revelation Laura Lippman
`Beautifully concise, with commendably sparse prose, dark humour and an appealing protagonist ... uncompromising, provocative and righteously fierce Laura Wilson, Guardian
`German-American Chastity Riley [is] snooty, churlish, sarcastic, sometimes drunk and always inappropriate. The whole series breaks the boundaries of typical crime novels Romy Hausmann
**Book of the Month in The Times, Guardian and Literary Review**
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When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the River Elbe, Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues begin a perplexing investigation.
As the murdered men are identified, it becomes clear that they all had a history of abuse towards women, leading Riley to wonder if it would actually be in society's best interests to catch the killers.
But when her best friend Carla is attacked, and the police show little interest in tracking down the offenders, Chastity takes matters into her own hands. As a link between the two cases emerges, horrifying revelations threaten Chastity's own moral compass, and put everything at risk...
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`Beautifully written in cool, witty prose N.J. Cooper, Literary Review
`A distinctive voice, and a flawed but compelling protagonist. This is vintage Buchholz – style and sass and St Pauli Will Carver
Praise for the Chastity Riley series
***WINNER of the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger***
***WINNER of the German Crime Book of the Year Award***
`Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose Observer
`Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers Graeme Macrae Burnet
`Gruesome and assured, Buchholz's work remains as persuasive as ever Financial Times
`Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space ... a palpable hit Independent
`With brief, pacy chapters and fizzling dialogue, this almost feels like American procedural noir and not a translation Maxim Jakubowski
`There is a fantastic pace to the story ... a unique voice that delivers a stylish story NB Magazine
`A smart and witty book that shines a probing spotlight on society CultureFly
`A must-read, stylish and highly original take on the detective novel Judith O'Reilly
`A real blast of adrenaline Big Issue
`Elmore Leonard fans will be enthralled Publishers Weekly
`Buchholz doles out delicious black humour [and] ramps up the intrigue and tension Foreword Reviews
`Fierce enough to stab the heart Spectator
`A modern classic CrimeTime
`A stylish, whip-smart thriller Herald Scotland
Titles in the series (1)
- The Kitchen
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Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women ... as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge. Germany's Queen of Krimi returns with the darkly funny, mesmerizingly dark next instalment in an addictive series... `Blends black comedy with real anger to produce a serious indictment of the male gaze. Simone Buchholz can make you grin, gasp or gag at will Mark Sanderson, The Times `Such a revelation Laura Lippman `Beautifully concise, with commendably sparse prose, dark humour and an appealing protagonist ... uncompromising, provocative and righteously fierce Laura Wilson, Guardian `German-American Chastity Riley [is] snooty, churlish, sarcastic, sometimes drunk and always inappropriate. The whole series breaks the boundaries of typical crime novels Romy Hausmann **Book of the Month in The Times, Guardian and Literary Review** ________ When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the River Elbe, Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues begin a perplexing investigation. As the murdered men are identified, it becomes clear that they all had a history of abuse towards women, leading Riley to wonder if it would actually be in society's best interests to catch the killers. But when her best friend Carla is attacked, and the police show little interest in tracking down the offenders, Chastity takes matters into her own hands. As a link between the two cases emerges, horrifying revelations threaten Chastity's own moral compass, and put everything at risk... ________ `Beautifully written in cool, witty prose N.J. Cooper, Literary Review `A distinctive voice, and a flawed but compelling protagonist. This is vintage Buchholz – style and sass and St Pauli Will Carver Praise for the Chastity Riley series ***WINNER of the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger*** ***WINNER of the German Crime Book of the Year Award*** `Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose Observer `Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers Graeme Macrae Burnet `Gruesome and assured, Buchholz's work remains as persuasive as ever Financial Times `Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space ... a palpable hit Independent `With brief, pacy chapters and fizzling dialogue, this almost feels like American procedural noir and not a translation Maxim Jakubowski `There is a fantastic pace to the story ... a unique voice that delivers a stylish story NB Magazine `A smart and witty book that shines a probing spotlight on society CultureFly `A must-read, stylish and highly original take on the detective novel Judith O'Reilly `A real blast of adrenaline Big Issue `Elmore Leonard fans will be enthralled Publishers Weekly `Buchholz doles out delicious black humour [and] ramps up the intrigue and tension Foreword Reviews `Fierce enough to stab the heart Spectator `A modern classic CrimeTime `A stylish, whip-smart thriller Herald Scotland
Simone Buchholz
Simone Buchholz was born in Hanau in 1972. At university, she studied Philosophy and Literature, worked as a waitress and a columnist, and trained to be a journalist at the prestigious Henri-Nannen-School in Hamburg. In 2016, Simone Buchholz was awarded the Crime Cologne Award, and second place in the German Crime Fiction Prize, for Blue Night, which was number one on the KrimiZEIT Best of Crime List for months. The next in the Chastity Riley series, Beton Rouge, won the Radio Bremen Crime Fiction Award and Best Economic Crime Novel 2017. She lives in Sankt Pauli, in the heart of Hamburg, with her husband and son.
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