One-Way Ticket - Peter Sarda

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Résumé :
One-Way Ticket is the first book in Peter Sarda's Hamburg Noir crime thriller series, which Publishers Weekly recommends for fans of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Philip Kerr, Jakob Arjouni, and Simone Buchholz. When Homicide Detective Thomas Ritter transfers to Hamburg, he has no idea he has stepped into the biggest police scandal in the city's history. No one told Ritter that his new partner, Motz Beck, is a moody biker with family ties to local mob boss Willi Kaiser, who controls the red-light district. Or that Kaiser is fighting a hostile takeover from the head of the Albanian mafia, the silent real estate partner of a prominent senator. After Hamburg's top cop is found dead in a Kaiser whorehouse, Ritter and Beck conclude that the only people they trust less than each other are their bosses in City Hall....

Biographie:
Peter Sarda (www.peter-sarda.com) is a third-generation Californian who has lived and worked in Hamburg, Germany, for over two decades. Publishers Weekly recommends his crime thriller series, Hamburg Noir, for fans of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Philip Kerr, Jakob Arjouni, and Simone Buchholz. Edda Green, the third book in the series, is cited in The Strand Mystery Magazine's spring 2025 list of Books you need to read. As a member of the Crime Writers' Association, Sarda contributes to Red Herrings magazine and CWA Readers' News. He is a shamus of the Film Noir Foundation and the primary source for Crime and the City: Hamburg on CrimeReads....

Sommaire:
One-Way Ticket is the first book in Peter Sarda's Hamburg Noir crime thriller series, which Publishers Weekly recommends for fans of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Philip Kerr, Jakob Arjouni, and Simone Buchholz. When Homicide Detective Thomas Ritter transfers to Hamburg, he has no idea he has stepped into the biggest police scandal in the city's history. No one told Ritter that his new partner, Motz Beck, is a moody biker with family ties to local mob boss Willi Kaiser, who controls the red-light district. Or that Kaiser is fighting a hostile takeover from the head of the Albanian mafia, the silent real estate partner of a prominent senator. After Hamburg's top cop is found dead in a Kaiser whorehouse, Ritter and Beck conclude that the only people they trust less than each other are their bosses in City Hall....