It was nice to have a detective novel start with someone hiring a detective. Just a straightforward person in trouble needing a someone to do a job the police won’t.  That the detective is a Turkish immigrant living in mid-1980’2 Germany makes the story a bit more fun, but is neither here nor there in the end. Happy Birthday, Turk is a hard-boiled detective story … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Turk by Jakob Arjouni Translated from the German by Anselm Hollo