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Lydia Leftcoast

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5. Purse book: "Finding Nouf" by Zoe Ferraris

Sun Oct 7, 2012, 12:01 AM

Oct 2012

A really terrific first novel by an American woman who was once married to a Saudi and lived in Saudi Arabia.

A 16-year-old girl disappears three days before her arranged marriage and is later found dead in the dessert under mysterious circumstances. The friend of the family who is quietly asked to investigate the situation finds many inconsistencies and differing views of what happened, and his puzzlement is only increased by the bold and strangely intriguing woman who works handling female corpses in the medical examiner's office.

Bedside book:I'm just about to start Faye Kellerman's "Gun Games."

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