Blue Night
***WINNER of the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2022***
***WINNER of the German Crime Book of the Year Award***
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, 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 trouble…
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.
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‘Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space. Blue Night is a palpable hit’
Independent
‘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’
The Times
‘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’
LoveReading
‘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 Ryan
