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Translated by Rachel Ward German crime fiction is a hit with our readers at the moment. We know this because thousands of readers have been checking in over the last month to read about the television series The Nordic Murders, plus our feature on some of the best German crime authors. Among them is the award-winning Hamburg-based author Simone Buchholz, whose new novel Hotel Cartagena is an edge-of-your-seat carnival ride (more on that later) threatening to careen out of control.
Hotel Cartagena features Buchholz’s spirited series character, public prosecutor Chastity Riley is straight-talking, hard and worldly. Both her name and manner seem more inspired by American crime fiction by the likes of Sara Paretsky or even Raymond Chandler. But this is Hamburg, a city with an anything-goes tradition, right? Because her chapters are told in first-person, you’re well aware of her wry sense of humour and how much she dreads the after-hours 65