Simone Buchholz

Sharks by Simone Buchholz

17 March, 2026

Translated by Rachel Ward — Sharks is the eighth novel featuring our intrepid, acerbic and tough Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley, and frankly, I can’t get enough of her. Sharks is just as dark and gritty as other books in the series, from Blue Night…

Features

Best crime novel in translation of 2024 shortlist

By crimefictionlover

25 November, 2024

Welcome to the shortlist for the Best Crime Novel in Translation category of the Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2024, where we celebrate some of the finest international crime novels brought to life for English-reading audiences. This year, our shortlist includes books – all nominated by…

Features Kindle Print

Sonja van der Westhuizen: Top five books of 2023

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 December, 2023

It’s been an interesting year for crime fiction trends. We’ve had it all, whether it’s the closed circle mystery novels with hen parties set a remote islands or mountain tops, the return to the gothic crime mystery a la Daphne Du Maurier, or crime fiction…

Kindle Print Reviews

The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

19 April, 2023

Translated by Rachel Ward — Unlike Erdinger or St Pauli Girl, German crime fiction doesn’t always travel as well as the country’s beers. However, the Chastity Riley series by Simone Buchholz has been something to behold. Beginning with Blue Night, Orenda Books has translated and…

News

On the Radar: From Norway with scales

By crimefictionlover

4 March, 2022

Just as COVID restrictions have eased we’ve now got the heightened worry that every living thing on the planet could soon be vaporised in a nuclear cataclysm… but at least there’s our weekly newsletter to distract you. And anyway, as crime fiction lovers, we’re used…

Features

Best crime novel in translation 2021 shortlist

By crimefictionlover

23 November, 2021

In our first ever – and hopefully annual – Crime Fiction Lover Awards, we bring you our shortlist for the Best Crime Novel in Translation for 2021. Have you read any of them? Which one is best? Have your say by voting via our online…

Kindle Print Reviews

Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 February, 2021

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…

News

On the Radar: Hotel under siege

By crimefictionlover

18 December, 2020

For those who love the action genre, Die Hard is perhaps the greatest Christmas movie of all. Now imagine if Die Hard was set in Hamburg. Maybe it would be a little bit like the latest novel by Simone Buchholz, whose Chastity Riley series has…

Crime Fiction Lover

Sharks by Simone Buchholz

Best crime novel in translation of 2024 shortlist

Sonja van der Westhuizen: Top five books of 2023

The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

On the Radar: From Norway with scales

Best crime novel in translation 2021 shortlist

Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz

On the Radar: Hotel under siege

Navigation

Recent Comments

Five great crime novels set in Asia

Your complete guide to Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club

Beck’s back with two special cases for 2025

Interview: Alex Gray

Come and Get Her by Bruce Conord

Categories