Brother Kemal: A Kayankaya Thriller

After a 20-year hiatus writing literary fiction, Arjouni returns to his popular mystery series (Happy Birthday, Turk!; Kismet), featuring Frankfurt PI Kemal Kayankaya. Kemal has set up shop in a ramshackle building on the seedy side of town, but that doesn't stop socialite Valerie de Chavannes from tracking him down and imploring him to find her missing teenage daughter. This task is accomplished far too easily, however, and the Turkish-German sleuth is stumbling into a morass of prostitution, drug dealing, and artfully rendered photography. Is the unnaturally beautiful Valerie an innocent bystander? Is her wayward teenage daughter? Before Kemal can come to his senses, he's hired by another beautiful woman, Katja the publisher. A controversial Moroccan novelist is coming to the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Katja needs Kemal to devote his resources to protecting the man at all costs. Soon Kemal notices that case one and case two have become very inconveniently intertwined.