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    Happy Birthday, Turk!: A Kayankaya Thriller (1)

    By Jakob Arjouni

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    “Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.”
    —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

    OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

    When a Turkish laborer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district, the local polcie see no need to work overtime. But when the laborer's wife comes to him for help, wise-cracking 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 and drug addicts, gets beaten up by anonymous thugs, survives a gas attack, and suffers several close encounters with a Fiat.

    And then there's the police cover-up he stumbles upon ...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJul 12, 2011
    ISBN9781612191003
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    Happy Birthday, Turk!: A Kayankaya Thriller (1)
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    Jakob Arjouni

    Jakob Arjouni is the author of the celebrated Kayankaya novels featuring a Turkish detective in Frankfurt. Titles include Happy Birthday Turk, More Beer, One Man One Murder and Kismet. Magic Hoffmann, a standalone novel was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. His last novel, Brother Kemal, was published by No Exit Press in August 2013.

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