{"product_id":"9781916788077","title":"The Kitchen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women … as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge. Germany's Queen of Krimi returns with the darkly funny, mesmerizingly dark next instalment in an addictive series…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `Blends black comedy with real anger to produce a serious indictment of the male gaze. Simone Buchholz can make you grin, gasp or gag at will´ \u003cb\u003eMark Sanderson, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e`Such a revelation´ \u003cb\u003eLaura Lippman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e`Beautifully concise, with commendably sparse prose, dark humour and an appealing protagonist … uncompromising, provocative and righteously fierce´ \u003cb\u003eLaura Wilson, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e`German-American Chastity Riley [is] snooty, churlish, sarcastic, sometimes drunk and always inappropriate. 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