Nightingale & Co By Charlotte Printz, translated by Marina Sofia

By Emma Fitzgerald -
Thank you @coryBooks and @MarinaSofia for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Nightingale & Co is a crime / thriller genre. The story set in Berlin, 1961. The main character is Carla, who has been running a detective agency called Nightingale and co on her own. It can be challenging to do this alone and as a woman. Then her half sister turns up called Wallace and makes things bit harder for her. It took me a couple of chapters to get into the story, but as I read more, I thoroughly enjoyed the plot and the characters. I found Carla and Wallace very entertaining, and they work very well together in the book. I think Carla my favorite though, just because she seems to be sensible and knows what she wants in life where Wallace is very different from her sister. The story written elegantly and is set at a good pace you can keep up with. I can’t wait for the next book to see what new investigations they are doing and how they are getting on with each other. 4 stars BLURB Berlin, August 1961. Since the death of her beloved father, Carla has been running the Nightingale & Co detective agency by herself. It’s a far from easy job for a female investigator. When the chaotic, fun-loving Wallie shows up at the door, claiming to be her half-sister, Carla’s world is turned upside down. Wallie needs Carla – the Berlin Wall has been built overnight, leaving her unable to return to her flat in East Berlin. Carla certainly doesn’t need Wallie, with her secret double life and unorthodox methods for getting results. Yet the mismatched pair must find a way to work together when one of their clients is accused of murdering her husband. BIO Nightingale & Co is the first in a cosy historical crime series featuring the sisters of the Nightingale & Co detective agency in 1960s Berlin. Charlotte Printz is the pseudonym of a successful former TV editor with a penchant for writing gripping historical novels and screenplays. She is one of the founders of the Munich Writing Academy. Marina Sofia is a translator, reviewer, writer and blogger, as well as a third culture kid, who grew up trilingual in Romanian, German and English. This is her first translation of a German crime novel to be published by Corylus Books

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