Finding Nouf

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This book was not what I expected based on the summary. It's sort of a hard boiled detective novel (and the author does some really fun things with those pulp conventions) set in Saudi Arabia. I'm not a big mystery reader; I either get frustrated that I don't know wtf is going on, or I ruin the ending for myself. With this one the end was a bit of a fizzle, but the mystery stopped being the point of the story at some point, and it became a character-driven look into middle eastern culture, which I dig.