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A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The\u00a0Acapulco, a club in the city\u2019s red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs.<\/p>\nA serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The\u00a0Acapulco, a club in the city\u2019s red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs.<\/p>\n
Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible for crimes in the district, and she\u2019s working alongside the police as they investigate. Can she get inside the mind of the killer?<\/p>\n
Her strength is thinking like a criminal; her weaknesses are pubs, bars and destructive relationships, but as Chastity searches for love and a flamboyant killer \u2013 battling her demons and the dark, foggy Hamburg weather \u2013 she hits dead end after dead end.<\/p>\n
As panic sets in and the death toll rises, it becomes increasingly clear that it may already be too late. For everyone\u2026<\/p>\n
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\u2018Caustic, incisive prose. A street-smart, gutsy heroine. A timely and staggeringly stylish thriller\u2019\u00a0Will Carver<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2018The coolest character in crime fiction \u2026 Darkly funny and written with a huge heart\u2019\u00a0Doug Johnstone,\u00a0Big Issue<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u2018Modern noir, with taut storytelling, a hard-bitten heroine, and underlying melancholy peppered with wry humour\u2019\u00a0New Zealand Listener<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u2018Dark, atmospheric, and complex, with often surprisingly emotional \u2026 a classy piece of fiction from an author who never disappoints\u2019\u00a0Jen Med\u2019s Book Reviews<\/b><\/p>\n
Praise for the Chastity Riley series:<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Combines nail-biting tension with off-beat humor … Elmore Leonard fans will be enthralled’\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Buchholz doles out delicious black humor … interwoven in a manner that ramps up the intrigue and tension’\u00a0Foreword Reviews<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u2019Lyrical and pithy’\u00a0Sunday Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Fierce enough to stab the heart’\u00a0Spectator<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘A real blast of adrenaline’\u00a0Big Issue<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space’\u00a0Financial Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘A stylish, whip-smart thriller’\u00a0Russel McLean<\/b><\/p>\n\n A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The\u00a0Acapulco, a club in the city\u2019s red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible for crimes in the district, and she\u2019s working alongside the police as they investigate. Can she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,1299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riley-fr","category-crime-fr","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"