Happy Birthday, Turk
About this ebook
When a Turkish labourer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district, the local police see no need to work overtime. But when the labourer's wife comes to him for help, detective Kemal Kayankaya, a Turkish immigrant himself, smells a rat. The dead man wasn't the kind of guy who spent time with prostitutes. What gives? The deeper he digs, the more Kayankaya finds that the vitim was a good guy, a poor immigrant just trying to look out for his family. So who wanted him dead, and why?
On the way to find out, Kayankaya has run-ins with prostitutes, drug addicts, anonymous thugs. And then there's the police cover-up he stumbles upon...
'The whole series should be on any crime connoisseur's bookshelf' - Telegraph
'Jakob Arjouni writes the best urban thrillers since Raymond Chandler' - Tempo
'Arjouni tells real-life stories, and they virtually never have a happy ending. He tells them so well, with such flexible dialogue and cleverly maintained tension, that it is impossible to put his books down' - El País, Madrid
Ratings and reviews
About the author
Jakob Arjouni was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1964, the son of acclaimed German playwright Hans Gunter Michelson. He has written numerous books, including the novel Magic Hoffmann, which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award and Chez Max, a dystopian vision of the near future. But it is for his series of five mysteries - featuring Turkish immigrant detective Kemal Kayankaya - for which he has become best known. Bestsellers throughout Europe, with One Man, One Murder winning the German Crime Fiction Prize, his books have also been turned into wildly popular movies in his home country. Sadly, Jakob Arjouni died at the age of just 48 in January 2013, from pancreatic cancer.