Reviews

Kismet by Jakob Arjouni

blevins's review

3.0

German crime novel set in Frankfurt around a Turkish private eye that hits on all the usual points--seedy, violent, detective getting the crap beat out of him as he doggedly pursues the truth. Short book, the first of Arjouni's books featuring this character to be translated into English--3 more coming in 2011--that has a solid anti-hero as the protagonist, but not super original. That's okay. Sometimes it's nice to go down a familiar, squalid path and I like reading something like this set in Germany.

stacialithub's review

4.0

I really enjoyed this! Kemal Kayankaya is a tough Turkish-German PI who accidentally ends up in the middle of a turf war as a Croatian organized crime group tries to take over territory of Albanian & German mobs in Frankfurt. The setting was great & I liked the international flavor of the various groups in the book. It was also darkly funny & nicely paced.

auntie_terror's review

4.0

For crime fiction, this was rather great for me. [Prtf]