Reply #34: City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris is my bedside book

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Ferraris married a Saudi and lived in Saudi Arabia for a time before getting divorced and returning to the States.

This is actually the second book in the series, which I didn't realize when I bought it, but it has two interwoven plots.

An American woman who has followed her (also American) husband to a job posting in Jeddah returns to Jeddah after a month-long vacation in the States only to have her husband disappear shortly after bringing her back to their apartment.

A Saudi woman, one of two female medical examiners in the country, puzzles over the case of a woman filmmaker whose body has been washed up on a beach.

I love reading mysteries set in countries that I have never been to and am unlikely to visit.