Kingdom Of Strangers
By (Author) Zoe Ferraris
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
9th April 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
813.6
Paperback
416
Width 139mm, Height 198mm, Spine 29mm
283g
Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad. But for the past year, he has been having an affair with a woman named Maria. One day though, she disappears.
Terrified and with nowhere else to turn, Ibrahim goes to Katya, one of the few women on the force. As she ventures into Saudi Arabia's underworld, she uncovers a murder which connects Maria to a human trafficking ring. Soon Ibrahim realises that the killer is closer to home than he had ever imagined.KINGDOM OF STRANGERS is a suspenseful story of murder and deception among Saudi Arabia's shaded alleys, gleaming compounds and vast lonely deserts.Zoe Ferraris lived in Jeddah for a year as part of a strict Saudi community before returning to live in the United States. She has received an MFA from Columbia University and now lives in San Francisco with her daughter.