Mexico Street by Simone Buchholz #Giveaway

Mexico Street by Simone Buchholz

Today, I’ve got a fabulous opportunity for you to win a copy of Simone Buchholz’s new novel Mexico Street. To enter your name into the drawing, simply RT my tweet or “like” this post.

Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-threatening discovery involving  criminal gangs and a very illicit love story…

Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect.

Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched. Only this car isn’t empty. The body of Nouri Saroukhan – prodigal son of the Bremen clan – is soon discovered, and the case becomes a homicide.

Public prosecutor Chastity Riley is handed the investigation, which takes her deep into a criminal underground that snakes beneath the whole of Germany. And as details of Nouri’s background, including an illicit relationship with the mysterious Aliza, emerge, it becomes clear that these are not random attacks, and there are more on the cards…

This sounds terrific, doesn’t it? You don’t want to miss a chance to read this book.

Praise for Simone Buchholz:

‘This is a punk-rock album translated into a hard-bitten tale of low-life scum and a lone officer. Fierce enough to stab the heart ’ — Spectator on Blue Night

‘Lyrical and pithy’–The Sunday Times Crime Club on Blue Night

‘Simone Buchholz writes with real authority and a pungent, noir-is sense of time and space …a palpable hit’ —Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

‘A real blast of adrenaline’ — Big Issue

‘With brief, pacy chapters and fizzling dialogue, this almost feels like American police procedural noir and not a translation’ — Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time 

‘A slick and stylish thriller with substance’ — Mystery Scene

‘A touch of class. Superb noir ’ —New Books Magazine

‘Sharp and unrelenting’ — CultureFly 

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 as well as runner-up in the German Crime Fiction Prize for Blue Night,which was number one on the KrimiZEIT Best of Crime List for months. She lives in Sankt Pauli, in the heart of Hamburg, with her husband and son.

Check out reviews of Mexico Street on the blog tour

To enter your name into the drawing, do ONE of these two things:

1. Retweet my tweet about this post; OR
2. “like” this post (through the “like” button below)

The deadline to enter the drawing is March 18, 2020 at midnight CST.

Thanks to Anne Cater and Orenda Books for the opportunity to feature Mexico Street on my blog.

Stay tuned. I’ll have two more book giveaways during March.