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Bruder Kemal
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Brother Kemal

Kayankaya’s 5th Case
Published by Diogenes as Bruder Kemal
Original Title: Bruder Kemal

Valerie de Chavannes, a financier's daughter, summons private investigator Kemal Kayankaya to her villa in Frankfurt's diplomats' quarter and commissions him to find her missing sixteen-year-old daughter Marieke. She is alleged to be with an older man who is posing as an artist. To Kayankaya, it seems like a simple case: an upper class girl with a thirst for adventure. Then another simple case turns up: The Maier Publishing House believes it needs to protect author Malik Rashid from attacks by religious fanatics at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Rashid has written a novel about, amongst other things, attitudes towards homosexuality in an Arabic country. Kayankaya is hired to be Rashid's bodyguard for three days. The two cases seem to be straightforward, but together they lead to murder, rape and abduction. And then Kayankaya comes under suspicion of being a contract killer for hire.


Crime fiction, General Fiction
240 pages
2012

978-3-257-06829-0
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»If you like your investigators tough and sassy, Kayankaya is your guide.«
Sunday Times of London
»Jakob Arjouni's new Frankfurt thriller is as wonderfully provocative and exciting as ever.«
Brigitte, Hamburg
»A refreshingly irreverent, relaxed approach to the subjects of integration, Islam and all the associated political pitfalls. Jakob Arjouni's style combines lightness and concision.«
Simone Benne / Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
»What makes his fifth ›Kayankaya‹ novel so good is the way Jakob Arjouni uses the two interwoven cases to provide sharp and pithy descriptions of very different lifestyles.«
Alex Rühle / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
»Jakob Arjouni is a great story teller, who comes up with striking characters and brilliant dialogue.«
Bastian von Jarzebowski / Frankfurter Neue Presse
»Sparkling dialogues, pointed remarks, cracking bones – and the book fair as target of irreverent satire: an excellent read.«
Manfred Papst / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»A master of crime fiction [. . .] with a cynical worldview and a wiseguy sense of humor straight out of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.«
William Grimes / The New York Times
»If you like your investigators tough and sassy, Kayankaya is your guide.«
Sunday Times of London
»Jakob Arjouni's new Frankfurt thriller is as wonderfully provocative and exciting as ever.«
Brigitte, Hamburg
»A refreshingly irreverent, relaxed approach to the subjects of integration, Islam and all the associated political pitfalls. Jakob Arjouni's style combines lightness and concision.«
Simone Benne / Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
»What makes his fifth ›Kayankaya‹ novel so good is the way Jakob Arjouni uses the two interwoven cases to provide sharp and pithy descriptions of very different lifestyles.«
Alex Rühle / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
»Jakob Arjouni is a great story teller, who comes up with striking characters and brilliant dialogue.«
Bastian von Jarzebowski / Frankfurter Neue Presse
»Sparkling dialogues, pointed remarks, cracking bones – and the book fair as target of irreverent satire: an excellent read.«
Manfred Papst / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»A master of crime fiction [. . .] with a cynical worldview and a wiseguy sense of humor straight out of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.«
William Grimes / The New York Times
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