City of Veils
by:
Zoë Ferraris (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780316089289 (0316089281)
Publish date: August 9th 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition language: English
Series: Nayir Sharqi & Katya Hijazi (#2)
bookshelves: tbr-busting-2015, series, published-2010, e-book, muslim, dec-2015-free-for-all, winter-20152016, jan-2016-litricher, lifestyles-deathstyles, lifesa-beach, tbr-busting-2016 Recommended for: Laura, Wanda et al Read from December 17, 2015 to January 03, 2016 Description: The body of ...
Zoe Ferraris’ City of Veils is a typical murder mystery with a twist. The twist, in this case, is not sudden or shocking but rather a fundamental element of the story, as the twist is mentioned in the synopsis - empowered women in a traditional Islamic society. Reading about Katya’s and Leila’s tria...
I enjoyed this crime novel set in Saudi Arabia. It is interesting to see the country seen both through the eyes of a western woman, Miriam, whose husband is missing, and those of the Saudi investigators .It gives a more well rounded picture than we sometimes get I feel. Likeable characters, especia...
I enjoyed this crime novel set in Saudi Arabia. It is interesting to see the country seen both through the eyes of a western woman, Miriam, whose husband is missing, and those of the Saudi investigators .It gives a more well rounded picture than we sometimes get I feel. Likeable characters, especia...
A detective mystery set in Saudi Arabia. Your first thought might be that there is going to be a lot of exposition about Islam and contrasting radical extremists with "good" Muslims, or disquisitions on the status of women in Islam and how much it sucks to be a Saudi woman. While these topics come u...