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Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a brutal double murder amid corruption and gentrification. Battling personal demons and powerful foes, she fights to expose a city\u2019s dark secrets. <\/b>Germany’s Queen of Krimi returns with the caustically funny, breathtakingly dark next instalment in an addictive series\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n
‘For the first time in a long time, I found a book I simply couldn\u2019t put down \u2013 and I didn\u2019t want it to end. There really should be a word for the sadness you feel when you\u2019re nearing the end of a truly fantastic read. Sharks<\/i> is that kind of book’ Leye Adenle<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2018Taut, compulsive and laced with humour as dark as its setting, Sharks<\/i> 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\u2019 Rod Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n
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In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg\u2019s so-called \u2018problem area\u2019, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict villa.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor 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.<\/p>\n
As 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\u2019t stop interfering. But nothing\u2019s going to stop her from cutting through the lies \u2013 not even the sharks circling ever closer.<\/p>\n
Dark, caustic and piercing,\u00a0Sharks<\/i>\u00a0is a searing investigation into greed, power, and the price of resistance in a city devouring itself, from one of Germany\u2019s finest, most original crime writers.<\/p>\n\n Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a brutal double murder amid corruption and gentrification. Battling personal demons and powerful foes, she fights to expose a city\u2019s dark secrets. Germany’s Queen of Krimi returns with the caustically funny, breathtakingly dark next instalment in an addictive series\u2026 ‘For the first time in a long time, I found a book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,101,1309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riley-fr","category-novels-fr","category-translation-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\/5194","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=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardtranslations.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"