The Acapulco (Chastity Riley Series #6)

by Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (Translator)

Overview

State prosecutor Chastity Riley must get inside the mind of a serial killer targeting dancers from a club in Hamburg's red-light district, and taking their hair and scalp as a trophy.

A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The Acapulco, a club in the city's red-light district, removing their scalp as a gruesome trophy and replacing their hair with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible for crimes in the district, and she's working alongside the police as they investigate. Can she get inside the mind of the killer? Her strength is thinking like a criminal; her weaknesses are pubs, bars, younger men and dingy light, but as Chastity searches for love and a flamboyant killer–battling her demons and the dark, foggy Hamburg weather–she hits dead end after dead end, and it may be too late. For everyone...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781914585678
Publisher:	Orenda Books
Publication date:	04/13/2023
Series:	Chastity Riley Series , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	383 KB

About the Author

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 was runner-up 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.

Rachel Ward is a freelance translator of literary and creative texts from German and French to English. Having always been an avid reader and enjoyed word games and puzzles, she discovered a flair for languages at school and went on to study modern languages at the University of East Anglia. She spent the third year working as a language assistant at two grammar schools in SaaebrÜcken, Germany. During her final year, she realized that she wanted to put these skills and passions to use professionally and applied for UEA's MA in Literary Translation, which she completed in 2002.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the series:

‘Combines nail - biting tension with off - beat humor ... Elmore Leonard fans will be enthralled’ Publishers Weekly

‘Buchholz doles out delicious black humor ... interwoven in a manner that ramps up the intrigue and tension’Foreword Reviews

Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers ... a truly unique voice in crime fiction’ Graeme Macrae Burnet

‘Caustic, incisive prose. A street - smart, gutsy heroine. A timely and staggeringly stylish thriller’ Will Carver

Lyrical and pithy’ Sunday Times

‘Fierce enough to stab the heart’ Spectator

‘A real blast of adrenaline’ Big Issue

‘Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir - ish sense of time and space’ Financial Times

‘A stylish, whip - smart thriller’ Russel McLean

"Gruesome and assured, Buchholz's work remains as persuasive as ever." —Maxim Jakubowski from the Crime Times.

"Unpredictable, shocking and funny. Simone Buchholz is my favourite German Crime Writer." —The Times.

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