Brother Kemal

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Valerie de Chavannes, a financier's daughter, summons Kayankaya to her Frankfurt villa and hires him to find her missing 16-year-old daughter, who is alleged to be with an older man posing as an artist. It seems like a simple case: an upper class girl with a thirst for adventure. Then Kayankaya is hired to act as bodyguard to an author a publisher believes is under threat. Malik Rashid has written a novel about attitudes towards homosexuality in an Arabic country, and could be vulnerable to attacks by religious fanatics at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Jakob Arjouni is the author of the celebrated Kayankaya novels featuring a Turkish detective in Frankfurt. Titles include Happy Birthday Turk, More Beer, One Man One Murder and Kismet. Magic Hoffmann, a standalone novel was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. His last novel, Brother Kemal, was published by No Exit Press in August 2013.

The whole series should be on any crime connoisseur's bookshelf * Telegraph * The sardonic humor survives intact, the writing is energetic, the plot moves right along * New York Times * A superb swansong -- Andrew Taylor * Spectator * The Kayankaya novels are a classic suite of 'outsider noir' tales and I certainly recommend BROTHER KEMAL to all lovers of mean streets and wily detectives -- Lynn Harvey * Euro Crime * Brother Kemal is a fitting end to a great series * Crime Fiction Lover *