So, "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler. Cyberpunk, nanites, crime, an odd pair, and queer main characters, fuck yeah!
In a world where almost everything can be "made" from raw materials using nanites, we meet our main characters: war veteran, makershop owner and government contractor Satya and lawful good newly-minted homicide detective Dan. They're trying to solve a near-perfect crime:
(1/n)
the victim's body has been decomposed into raw materials using reprogrammed nanites.
Their investigation leads them to a conspiracy involving the inventor of the nanites technology, the military, and the two largest local (which means Minneapolis) companies. It leads them to posh corporate goons and lawless parts of the city and into Satya's traumatic experiences during a recent war, which include being half dissolved by nanites.
(2/n)
The setting feels very familiar if you've read William Gibson: weak governments, lawless places, ethical hackers, feudal structures with the very rich doing what they like while everyone else is on their own; shiny nanotechnology and the subsequent rise in value for naturally grown materials like wood.
(The latter is particularly nicely shown-not-told by characters always noticing wooden objects.)
But the characters are a nice fresh spin on Gibson's characters:
(3/n)
women who are neither delicate flowers nor die-hard badasses. The Minnesotan winter setting was also neat and I suspect Minneapolis natives will enjoy it a lot more than I did.
The story was... a little too easily resolved in my opinion. Satisfying but too easy. And I have other minor worldbuilding quibbles; I'm not buying the US dominance here.
(4/n)
The book would have benefitted from more editing, here are some formatting issues and a nonbinary character who uses they/them pronouns is suddenly talked about using he/him pronouns for a few paragraphs until the pronouns switch back.
But all in all, an absolutely enjoyable read.
(5/n, n=5)
Jules