Simone Buchholz has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Blue Night.
Blue Night
Summary
After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster's crown jewels, the career of Hamburg's most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nosedive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital - almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, and refusing to speak in anything other than riddles - Chastity's instinct for the big, exciting case kicks in. Using all her powers of persuasion, she soon gains her charge's confidence and finds herself on the trail to Leipzig, a new ally and a whole heap of lethal synthetic drugs. When she discovers that a friend and former colleague is trying to bring down Hamburg's Albanian mafia kingpin single-handedly, it looks like Chas Riley's dull life on witness protection really has been short-lived.... Fresh, fiendishly fast-paced and full of devious twists and all the hard- boiled poetry and ascerbic wit of the best noir, Blue Night marks the stunning start of a brilliant new crime series, from one of Germany's best-selling authors.
©2018 Simone Bucholz (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
Revolverherz
Summary
Kein guter Morgen für die Staatsanwältin Chastity Riley - mit zu viel Restalkohol im Blut wird sie zu einer nackten und skalpierten Frauenleiche im Hamburger Hafen gerufen. Die Todesumstände gehen der Deutsch-Amerikanerin nah, und ihre Gemütslage wird nicht besser, als wenig später ein zweites Opfer gefunden wird. Eine erste Spur führt in das Rotlichtviertel von St. Pauli. Und plötzlich scheint sogar das unsortierte Privatleben von Chas in dem Fall eine Nebenrolle zu übernehmen.
Heike Makatsch ist einfach unvergleichlich - eine, die so spielt wie sie, gibt es in Deutschland und Umgebung nicht noch einmal, das ist nach fast 20 Jahren Leinwandpräsenz längst klar. Deshalb passt sie mit ihrer rauen, leicht gebrochenen Stimme auch fast schon unheimlich perfekt zu der höchst ungewöhnlichen Figur der Chastity Riley - auch die ist frisch und unverwechselbar. Ein Dreamteam!
©2014 Droemer (P)2014 Random House Audio
Mexico Street
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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....
©2020 Orenda Books Ltd (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
Hotel Cartagena
Summary
Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when 12 heavily armed men pull out guns and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a man whose life - and family - have been destroyed by Hoogsmart’s actions. With the police looking on from outside - their colleagues’ lives at stake - and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill from sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation and a devastating outcome for the team...all live streamed in a terrifying bid for revenge.
©2019, 2021 Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin, Translation Rachel Ward (P)2021 Isis Publishing Ltd
Beton Rouge
Summary
On a warm September morning, an unconscious man is found in a cage at the entrance to the offices of one of the biggest German newspapers. Closer inspection shows he is a manager of the company, and he’s been tortured. Three days later, another manager appears in similar circumstances. Chastity Riley and her new colleague Ivo Stepanovic are tasked with uncovering the truth behind the attacks, an investigation that goes far beyond the revenge they first suspect...to the dubious past shared by both victims. Travelling to the south of Germany, they step into the elite world of boarding schools, where secrets are currency and monsters are bred...monsters who will stop at nothing to protect themselves. A smart, dark, probing thriller, full of all the hard-boiled poetry and acerbic wit of the very best noir, Beton Rouge is both a classic whodunit and a scintillating expose of society, by one of the most exciting names in crime fiction.
©2019 Simone Bulchholz (P)2019 Audible, Ltd
Beton Rouge
Summary
Ein ungewöhnlich warmer Septembermorgen auf St. Pauli. Der Regen der letzten Nacht ist noch nicht verdunstet, und vor dem Gebäude eines großen Zeitschriftenverlags steht ein Käfig, darin der Chef der Personalabteilung. Nackt, bewusstlos und offensichtlich misshandelt. Drei Tage später steht der nächste Käfig vorm Verlag, diesmal liegt der Geschäftsführer drin. Staatsanwältin Chastity Riley, die von ihren Chefs hin und wieder von der Leine gelassen wird, und ihr neuer, undurchsichtiger Kollege Stepanovic glauben zunächst an einen Racheakt der Verlagsmitarbeiter - seit Jahren werden Leute entlassen, während sich die Führungskräfte dicke Boni in die Taschen stopfen. Als dann ans Licht kommt, dass alle drei Opfer nicht nur ihr Status, sondern auch eine mehr als zweifelhafte Vergangenheit verbindet, verschwindet der Vorstandsvorsitzende...
©2017 Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin (P)2017 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg