Tangerine’s jacket blurb by Joyce Carol Oates, “As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn, and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated on a screenplay to be filmed by Hitchcock” is spot on. I found it to be a mostly gripping page turner set with the unique backdrop of a 1950s Morocco recently freed from colonial oppression. Mangan releases a few secrets a little too early. In my opinion if she’d held back slightly it could have driven the suspense onward to the end. Overall Tangerine was an enjoyable book, especially to kick off fun summer reads for 2018.