
Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic law and tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the medical examiner's office, is determined to make her work mean something.When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, the city's detectives are ready to dismiss the case as another unsolvable murder-chillingly common in a city where ...
Series: A Katya Hijazi and Nayir Sharqi Novel
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (August 9, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780316074278
ISBN-13: 978-0316074278
ASIN: 0316074276
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 1741671
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I was so impressed with Zoe Ferraris' first book Finding Nouf that I looked forward to reading her second of the series City of Veils. I wondered if it would fulfill the promise of the first, if the budding and strained romance of Katya and Nayir w...
f conservative Islam keep women as anonymous in life as the victim is in death. If this is another housemaid killed by her employer, finding the culprit will be all but impossible.Only Katya is convinced that the victim can be identified and her killer found. She calls upon her friend Nayir for help, and soon discovers that the dead girl was a young filmmaker named Leila, whose controversial documentaries earned her many enemies.With only the woman's clandestine footage as a guide, Katya and Nayir must confront the dark side of Jeddah that Leila struggled to expose: an underworld of prostitution, violence, exploitation, and jealously guarded secrets. Along the way, they form an unlikely alliance with an American woman whose husband has disappeared. Their growing search takes them from the city's car-clogged streets to the deadly vastness of the desert beyond.In CITY OF VEILS, award-winning author Zoë Ferraris combines a thrilling, fast-paced mystery with a rare and intimate look into women's lives in the Middle East.