More Beer: A Kayankaya Thriller (2) (Melville International Crime)
Praise forKismet “As winning a noirish gumshoe as has swooped onto the mystery scene in some time.” —Richard Lipez, The Washington Post “In the emphasis on action and quck-jab dialogue, readers will notice  an echo of James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler, but Arjouni’s stories  also brim with the absurd humor that made The Sopranos so entertaining.” —Vikas Turakhia, The Plain Dealer(Cleveland) “Jakob Arjouni’s downbeat detective Kemel Kayankaya has proved as  enigmatic as Columbo, as erudite as Marlowe and occasionally, as crazed  as Hammett’s Continental Op . . . Arjouni forges both a gripping caper  and a haunting indictment of the madness of nationalism, illuminated by  brilliant use of language: magnificent.” —The Guardian “This lively, gripping book sets a high standard for the crime novel as the best of modern literature.” —The Independent  “With its snappy dialogue and rumpled heroes, Arjouni’s crime fiction  owes an obvious debt to American noir but it is equally reminiscent of  many Eastern European satirical novels.  The plot of Kismet may  recall any number of gangster romps, but the society so caustically  depicted here is as recognizable as that conjured up, for instance, by  Jaroslav Hasek in The Good SoldierSchweik.” —Anna Mudow, The Barnes & Noble Review “Re-imagines the dull capital of the German financial industry as an  urban hell where minority groups and crime bosses prey on one another  with ruthless abandon.” —The Daily Beast “If you like your investigators tough and sassy, Kayankaya is your guide.” —The Sunday Times(London)  “This is true hardboiled detective fiction, realistic, violent and  occasionally funny, with a hero who lives up to the best traditions of  the genre.” —The Daily Telegraph  Praise forOne Man, One Murder “Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review “A zippy, deliciously dirty tour of legal fleshpots and low-down scams  victimizing illegal aliens . . . Plotted with verve and written with  passion.” —Kirkus Reviews “The book is as hard-boiled as private eye stories come.” —TheToronto Star Praise forHappy Birthday, Turk! “The greatest German mystery since World War II.” —Süddeutsche(Germany) International Praise for Jacob Arjouni’s Kayankaya novels “A worthy grandson of Marlowe and Spade.” —Der Stern (Germany) “Jakob Arjouni writes the best urban thrillers since Raymond Chandler.” —Tempo(UK) “A genuine storyteller who beguiles his readers without the need of tricks.” —L’Unità (Italy) “Arjouni is a master of authentic background descriptions and an original story teller.” —SonntagsZeitung(Germany) “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(Spain) “His virtuosity, humor and feeling for tension are a ray of hope in literature on the other side of the Rhine.” —Actuel(France) “Pitch-black noir.” —La Depeche(France)