A review by blevins
Kismet by Jakob Arjouni

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.