After convicting a superior for corruption & shooting off a gangster`s crown jewels, the career of Hamburg`s most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nose dive: 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, & 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, & finds herself on the trail to Leipzig, a new ally, & a whole heap of lethal synthetic drugs. When she discovers that a friend & 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 & full of devious twists & all the hard-boiled poetry & acerbic wit of the best noir, Blue Night marks the stunning start of a brilliant new crime series, from one of Germany`s bestselling authors.