Скачать или смотреть Zoom launch for Vanda Symon's Bound & Simone Buchholz's Hotel Cartagena

Orenda Books is delighted to celebrate publication of ‘Queen of Krimi’ Simone Buchholz’s Hotel Cartagena (translated by Rachel Ward) and award-winning New Zealand crime writer Vanda Symon’s Bound with an online launch.

Hotel Cartagena is the fourth in the international, bestselling Chastity Riley series, and it sees our protagonist trapped in a hotel bar, high above Hamburg Harbour, as gunmen take its occupants hostage. Buchholz is one of Germany’s finest literary crime writers, and her crackling prose and modern take on Noir have attracted legions of fans, including Graeme Macrae Burnet, who says, ‘‘Reading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers … a truly unique voice in crime fiction’ and The Times: ‘Disgraced state prosecutor Chastity Riley chases round the dive bars of the port city pursuing and being pursued by a beguiling cast of cops, criminals and chums, delivering scalding one-liners as she goes’.

Bound is the fourth instalment is the unforgettable Sam Shephard series, shortlisted for the prestigious Ngaio Marsh Award in Vanda Symon’s native New Zealand. Set in Dunedin, this whip-smart, emotive thriller sees Sam go vigilante when her instincts tell her that her colleagues have got the wrong suspects behind bars in the case of a murdered local businessman. Sam’s personal problems drive her to act uncharacteristically, adding depth to this exceptional thriller.

Simone Buchholz and Vanda Symon will be in conversation with New Zealand author and reviewer Craig Sisterson. Translator Rachel Ward will tune in for questions from guests.

This event is free to attend, however we do encourage you to support the authors in any way you can and Hotel Cartagena and Bound are available to order online now. Signed copies are available EXCLUSIVELY from our partner independent bookshop, Four Bears, in Reading: [email protected]

To register for the event email: [email protected]

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Simone Buchholz

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. In 2016, Simone Buchholz was awarded the Crime Cologne Award and was runner-up in the German Crime Fiction Prize for Blue Night, which was number one on the KrimiZEIT Best of Crime List for months. e next in the Chastity Riley series, Beton Rouge, won the Radio Bremen Crime Fiction Award and Best Economic Crime Novel 2017. In 2019, Mexico Street, the follow-up in the series, won the German Crime Fiction Prize. She lives in Sankt Pauli, in the heart of Hamburg, with her husband and son. Follow Simone on Twitter @ohneKlippo and visit her website: simonebuchholz.com.

Vanda Symon

Vanda Symon lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. As well as being a crime writer, she has a PhD in science communication and is a re- searcher at the Centre for Paci c Health at the University of Otago. Overkill was shortlisted for the 2019 CWA John Creasey Debut Dagger Award and she is a three-time nalist for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. Vanda produces and hosts Write On, a monthly radio show focusing on the world of books at Otago Access Radio. When she isn’t working or writing, Vanda can be found in the garden, or on the business end of a fencing foil.

Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward is a freelance translator of literary and creative texts from German and French to English. Having studied modern languages at the University of East Anglia, she went on to complete UEA’s MA in Literary Translation. Her pub- lished translations include Traitor by Gudrun Pausewang andRed Rage by Brigitte Blobel, and she is a Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. She has previously translated Simone Buccholz’s Blue Night, Beton Rouge andMexico Street for Orenda Books. Follow Rachel on Twitter @FwdTranslations, on her blog www.adiscounttickettoeverywhere.wordpress.com, and on her website: www.forwardtranslations.co.uk.

Craig Sisterson

Craig Sisterson is a lapsed lawyer from New Zealand who now lives in London and writes features for magazines and newspapers in several countries. In recent years he’s interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at books festivals on three continents. Craig has been a judge of the Ned Kelly Awards and the McIlvanney Prize, is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. His first non-fiction book, Southern Cross Crime, was published in 2020 by Oldcastle Books.