Behind God's Back (An Ariel Kafka Mystery Book 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00LDYEX5U |
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| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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A New Land for Exciting Noir Mallory Heart Reviews I reviewed a digital ARC generously provided by the publisher via Edelweiss Reviewers.REVIEW BEHIND GOD'S BACKAn exciting and intriguing mystery from a land fairly new to crime and noir fiction, Finland. Additionally, this book and its precursor, NIGHTS OF AWE, both "starring" police detective Ariel Kafka (what a special name!), carry ethnic overtones: Kafka is a Helsinki Jew, non-observant, and BEHIND GOD'S BACK focuses on crimes against Jews, which may be ethnically related. Kafka is a bit of a bumbler in his personal and social life, but endeavors himself to t. "A Jewish Cop in Helzinki" according to BenBuddy in Cali. Love #2. Read Days of Awe first and rush headlong into this sequel. Now that you know this man and his family and coworkers, the action speeds along. So much fun .. "Scandi-beige." according to SueKich. According to the blurb, the wonderfully named Ariel Kafka thinks of himself first and foremost as a cop, secondly as a Finn and lastly as a Jew. In the second instalment of this Helsinki-based police procedural series, the plot once again revolves around murder within the tiny Jewish Helsinki community. There's the kernel of a good idea here but once again the characters, the plot, the dialogue, the detail, the denouement - all fail to deliver. There is no sense at all of place and Helsinki remains for the reader a city of Scrabble-shelf street names. As for the
When a detective noir is told in the first person it's important to be able to engage with the narrator and Ari is a very engaging chap.'Book Bag. A Helsinki businessman apparently murdered by the most awkward suspect possible launches Detective Ariel Kafka, of the Violent Crimes Unit, on his second case (Nights of Awe, 2012).Perhaps the oddest Scandinavian mystery to have crossed the ocean yet, a mixture of Jo Nesbø's portraits of Nordic political corruption with Jerome Charyn's waggish Borscht Belt tales of Isaac Sidel, the Pink Commish of New York.’ KirkusNykanen's tidy style is reminisce
Kafka is a religiously non-observant forty-something bachelor who is such a stubborn, dedicated policeman that he's willing to risk his career to get an answer. Nykänen's work exposes the local underworld through the eyes of the criminal, the terrorist, and now from the point of view of an eccentric Helsinki police inspector.. Neo-Nazi violence, intergenerational intrigue, shady loans—predictable lines of investigation lead to unpredictable culprits. But a second killing strikes closer to home, and the Finnish Security Police come knocking. The tentacles of Israeli politics and Mossad reach surprisingly far, once again wrapping Kafka in their sticky embrace.Harri Nykänen, born in Helsinki in 1953, was a well-known crime journalist and is now dedicated t