Final Bet

"Abdelilah Hamdouchi seems to have found the formula for the emergence of the Moroccan detective novel."—Liberation Kaleidoscope

When young and handsome Othman married Sofia—sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior—he found his ticket out of a life of desperate poverty in the slums of Casablanca.

But when Sofia is brutally murdered, the police quickly zero in on Othman as the prime su...