Book Club Meeting
Simone Buchholz: Blue Night

Tue, 10.12.2019
6:30 PM - 19:00 Goethe-Institut Glasgow

This special meeting of our regular book club, which is open and free to all literature friends, will briefly discuss the novel 'Blue Night (Blaue Nacht)' by Simone Buchholz.  Books are available to buy from the library beforehand.
 
Due to an unfortunate incident where she convicted a superior of corruption and shot a gangster all at once, district attorney Chastity Riley has been transferred to victim protection and thus – officially been put in the backwater. Her private life doesn’t offer any consolation either: her formerly favourite colleague sets out, what with his midlife crisis and all, on his own personal vendetta, while her most faithful ally in the police department descends into the depths of his broken heart.

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. She has been writing for women’s magazines for more than 15 years, but has always written about football, the economy, and journeys to foreign countries as well. In 2008, she published her first crime novel, Revolverherz, which was subsequently translated into French and Italian.
Blue Night, the first installment of the Chastity-Riley-series to be published by Suhrkamp Verlag, was #1 on the KrimiZEIT-Best of Crime List for months. In 2016, Simone Buchholz was awarded the Crime Cologne Award as well as the 2nd Place of the German Crime Fiction Prize for Blue Night. Film rights for Blue Night have also been optioned. Mexico Ring (2018) won the German Crime Fiction Prize 2019. Together with her husband and their son, Simone Buchholz lives in Sankt Pauli, in the heart of Hamburg.

Source: Suhrkamp Verlag

>> Meet the Author:
Following this short Book Club Meeting you are welcome to join us to meet the author herself. Simone Buchholz, multi-award winning German crime fiction author, will be chaired by author Graeme Macrae Burnet, here at the Goethe-Institut.