City of Veils, Zoe Ferraris
City of Veils, Zoe Ferraris
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City of Veils
A Novel

Author: Zoe Ferraris

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 14 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/09/2010


Synopsis

When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim dreads investigating another unsolvable murder—chillingly common in a city where the veils of conservative Islam keep women as anonymous in life as the victim is in death.

But Katya, one of the few females in the coroner's office, is determined to identify the woman and find her killer. Aided by her friend Nayir, she soon discovers that the victim was a young, controversial filmmaker named Leila. Was it Leila's connection to an incendiary Koranic scholar or a missing American man that got her killed?

City of Veils combines a suspenseful and tightly woven mystery with an intimate and nuanced portrait of women's lives in the Middle East.

About Zoe Ferraris

Zoë Ferraris has an M.F.A. from Columbia University and is the author of the novel Finding Nouf, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for First Fiction. She lives in San Francisco.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill on August 02, 2010

There have been many literary mysteries written and many books about the plight of women in repressive Saudi Arabia, but I have never read an author who is able to so seamlessly weave these threads together to create a potboiler thriller that sizzles with knowledge. Set in Jeddah – seemingly one of t......more

Goodreads review by Skip on November 29, 2020

I have no idea why I waited six years to read this sequel, which I think was better than the first book which won a couple of book awards. Set in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, this book once again pairs Nayir Sharqi (a religious Muslim desert tour guide) with Katya Hijazi (a woman working in a man's world,......more

Goodreads review by Harry on August 15, 2013

Book Review: The saga of Katya and Nayir continues in this, the second in this Ferraris series. Elsewhere here on GR I have been embroiled in commentary regarding the nature of protests: political, economical, etc. And as I was responding in that particular thread my mind kept returning to perhaps the......more

Goodreads review by Alex on October 08, 2022

Everyone knew that if a suspect could not be found, the police would happily take a relative as insurance, until the suspect chose to turn themselves in…so most relatives attempted to portray an unhappy family – in the hope that an officer would actually believe it. Part police procedural / part love......more

Goodreads review by Julie on August 17, 2010

I wondered several times during The City of Veils if I could read another Nayir Sharqi mystery after this follow-up to the mesmerizing Finding Nouf. The oppressive Saudi culture and the unforgiving interpretation of Islam that requires subjugating women sets a haunting and desperate tone that is alm......more