Book cover for Sharks: The Fiercely Original, Slick and Darkly Funny New Chastity Riley Thriller... by Simone Buchholz

Sharks

The Fiercely Original, Slick and Darkly Funny New Chastity Riley Thriller...

2026 Released
276 Pages
4-6 Hours
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Orenda BooksISBN 9781917764087
Translated by Rachel Ward

In Hamburg's troubled Wilhelmsburg district, Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a brutal double murder amid corruption and gentrification. Battling personal demons and powerful foes, she fights to expose a city's dark secrets.

In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg's so-called "problem area", an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict villa.

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.

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't stop interfering. But nothing's going to stop her from cutting through the lies--not even the sharks circling ever closer.

Dark, caustic and piercing, Sharks is a searing investigation into greed, power, and the price of resistance in a city devouring itself, from one of Germany's finest, most original crime writers.

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