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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.
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.
Zoe Ferraris is one of our most featured and respected Mysteries & Thrillers, Fiction and Arts & Entertainment authors available on our website. With a total of 3 audiobooks in our collection on AudiobookStore.com, such as City of Veils: A Novel and Finding Nouf, you can enjoy over 25 hours of stories from Ferraris. Finding Nouf was added to our online catalog in 2008, making it the oldest audiobook we carry from Ferraris. The audiobook, City of Veils: A Novel, is the latest of their audiobooks to be added to our collection. Though all of Ferraris's Mysteries & Thrillers audiobooks can be enjoyed by our customers, City of Veils: A Novel is the most popular and bestselling audiobook sold on our site. To view the entire collection of 3 audiobooks, please visit their author page on AudiobookStore.com: Zoe Ferraris audiobooks.