Okay, so I guess vN wasn't my last book of the year, but this is still a decent way of ending the year (I'll revise this if I finish a book before midnight tomorrow). A thriller set primarily in the oil-rich, highly corrupt African country of Equatorial Guinea, this book follows Vanessa Munroe, an American investigator born to missionaries in Africa. She's on the trail of the stepdaughter of an oil baron, who disappeared somewhere in Africa four years ago. It's an enjoyably tense book, and Equatorial Guinea was certainly a new setting for me.