Mexico Street

Chastity Riley, Book 3

By: Simone Buchholz

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

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....

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Nice, not great.

I was expecting more from this book and this could be the reason why I am disappointed.
Too much attention goes to the protagonist love life and too much attention is dedicated to the drinks and the cigarettes consumed by everyone in prodigious quantities, even by the standards of a noir from the forties, so there is little room left for the plot which is almost sketched.