Allmen and the Pink Diamond - Softcover

"Sophisticated sybarite Allmen of course gets the best of everything ... the Pink Diamond turns out not to be as expected, and Allmen and faithful Carlos enter the slippery realm of high ­finance. Immense fun for lovers of ­international mystery."
―Library Journal

"Delightfully quirky and original, it feels like a Golden Age detective novel transposed, wonderfully, into the 21st century."
―Peter James, author of Dead Simple and Dead Man's Time

"Suter is a consummate crime writer, his style is light and fast paced but has real depth when it comes to characterisation and understanding human nature. The overall impression is one of enjoyment; Suter knows how to entertain and Allmen and the Pink Diamond is at times wickedly funny and always slightly eccentric. There’s an eclectic cast of characters and brief cameos all finely sketched."
―NB Magazine

"Most enjoyable ... Allmen and the Pink Diamond certainly goes down easily and well―and lingers nicely as the lightest of wafts, leaving one also looking forward to the next meeting with the quite delightful Allmen."
―The Complete Review

“In the honorable vein of elegant, gentleman thieves, comes Allmen.”
―Noah Charney, author of The Art Thief and The Art of Forgery

“Fritz von Allmen [is] an unapologetically profligate bon vivant and petty thief ... all with the aplomb of a slightly more self-aware Bertie Wooster. Martin Suter is a terrific writer.”
―Jonathan Rabb, author of Among the Living and Rosa

"Fans of light crime novels will be satisfied."
―Publishers Weekly

"Action, a touch of eroticism, lots of humor and sweet melancholy ... The Swiss novelist provides great entertainment."
―Les Echos

"Johann Friedrich von Allmen is a pleasant alternative to the many seedy, lonely and sordid investigators in most crime novels. Allmen is elegant, cultivated, measured, but never dull and always a bit ironic. A good mixture that gives these light-hearted, amusing crime novels their special character."
―Westdeutscher Rundfunk