Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her friends are held hostage in a hotel bar by twelve armed men set on revenge, in a searing, breathtakingly original, and unexpectedly moving new thriller from the 'Queen of Krimi' ___WINNER of the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2022___ ___WINNER of the German Crime Book of the Year Award___ 'Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-ish sense of time and space ... a palpable hit' Independent 'Reading Buchholz is like walking on ...