CITY OF VEILS BY ZÖE FERRARIS, LITTLE, BROWN, $32.99.
Who doesn’t love a forensic pathologist? The challenge is making your crime scene expert different. In City Of Veils, Katya Hijazi is a burqa-wearing police lab technician in Saudi Arabia, solving crime despite the disapproval of the religious establishment and her conservative admirer, Rafiq.
When a woman, thought to be just another murdered housemaid, is found washed up on the shore, her body is given to Katya for examination, but Katya and Rafiq’s investigation leads them to a missing US security consultant, a mysterious British academic and strikes at the heart of Islam. Katya’s struggles against sexism are frustrating – it’s as if Elizabeth Bennett is trying to become a CSI – but her passion for justice drives her on.
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