Arab Jazz / Karim Miske, trans. by Sam Gordon, 242 pp.

In a quarter of Paris in which Muslims, Jews and Christians live together, sometimes uneasily, a beautiful flight attendant from a family of Jehovah's Witnesses is horrifically murdered.  The crime scene is heavy with confusing religious symbolism, and the victim's neighbor and friend, Ahmed, fears he must solve the crime before the police or risk being accused himself.

Arab Jazz has a complex and ultimately coherent plot, and very nicely developed characters.  The story unfolds in an unpredictable way; maybe that's the Jazz?