City of Veils: A Novel (A Katya Hijazi and Nayir Sharqi Novel)

Finding Nouf's Katya Hijazi And Nayir Sharqi Return For Another Thrilling, Fast-paced Mystery That Provides A Rare And Intimate Look Into Women's Lives In The Middle East. 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 The Veils Of Conservative Islam Keep Women As Anonymous In Life As This 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.!--endfragment-- The body of a young woman is discovered on the grimy sands of Jeddah beach; soon afterwards, a strong-minded American woman finds herself alone and afraid in the most repressive city on earth when her husband suddenly disappears. Investigating police officer Osama Ibrahim, forensic scientist Katya Hijazi and her friend, the strictly devout Bedouin guide Nayir Sharqi join forces to search out the truth in the scorching city streets and the vast, lethal emptiness of the desert beyond. Breathtakingly fast-paced, sure-footed and thrilling, this novel paints in dazzling colours a city of veils in which more is hidden than is revealed, and nothing is what it seems. After the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on a beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim, along with the help of female coroner Katya and her friend Nayir, discovers that the victim was a controversial filmmaker and must discern whowanted her dead