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City of veils a novel

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.

Main Author: Ferraris, Zoë.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Women > Crimes against > Saudi Arabia > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Saudi Arabia > Fiction.
Saudi Arabia > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Saudi Arabia.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: 393 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780316074278
0316074276
Author Notes: Zo Ferraris moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War to live with her then husband and his extended family of Saudi-Palestinian Bedouins, who had never welcomed an American into their lives before. She has an MFA from Columbia University and is the author of one previous novel, Finding Nouf. She lives in San Francisco.

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