City of Veils

from DeltaQueen50

City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris is the second book in her mystery series that is set in Saudi Arabia. I read these books as much for the information about this closed society where woman are considered chattels and are forced to go in public in long black robes and with their faces covered. Many me...

from maneekuhi

I thought Ferraris' debut book, Finding Nouf, was very good, but City of Veils is so much better. The detail is very rich, not only about the people who live in Jeddah but also of the city and the surrounding desert. Reading CoV, one can't help being caught up in the frustration that women especi...

from cathyskye

First Line: The woman's body was lying on the beach. I am always looking to broaden my armchair traveling horizons, so when I read that City of Veils was set in Saudi Arabia, my interest was certainly piqued. If I'm honest, it was also piqued for another reason. In the mid-1970s, I was being recr...

from nordie

Set in Jeddah, a more "progressive" city in Saudia Arabia, a woman is found washed up on a beach, brutally murdered. A murder investigation follows, involving the disappearance of the American husband of a woman recently returned from a trip home to America (and who is finding living away from th...

from smik

A fisherman reports finding a dead body on the beach near Jeddah: female, young, but with whole sections of her face missing. Nayir the desert guide is preparing to take another too wealthy family on a desert excursion, but the family keeps shortening the length of the planned trip, until eventua...