MORE ABOUT JAKOB ARJOUNI

'A worthy grandson of Marlowe and Spade.'
- Stern

'Jakob Arjouni writes the best urban thrillers since Raymond Chandler'
- Tempo

'There is hardly another German-speaking writer who is as sure of his milieu as Arjouni is. He draws incredibly vivid pictures of people and their fates in just a few words. He is a master of the sketch – and the caricature – who operates with the most economic of means.'
- Die Welt, Berlin

'Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes'
- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times

'it takes an outsider to be a great detective, and Kemal Kayankaya is just that'
- Independent, Jonathan Gibbs [read the full review]

'Arjouni is a master of authentic background descriptions and an original story teller'
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

'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

'His virtuosity, humour and feeling for tension are a ray of hope in literature on the other side of the Rhine'
- Actuel, Paris

'Jakob Arjouni is good at virtually everything: gripping stories, situational comedy, loving character sketches and apparently coincidental polemic commentary'
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

'A genuine storyteller who beguiles his readers without the need of tricks'
- L'Unità, Milan