Strangers
Carla Banks
Language: English
Pages: 496
ISBN: B002RI9PWW
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Another haunting psychological thriller from Carla Banks, as the trade in people trafficking impacts on three disparate lives with shocking consequences.
Roisin Massey is a stranger in a strange land. An impulsive marriage has brought this young British lecturer to the forbidding city of Riyadh. Thankfully, she has the best guide possible: her new husband, Joe.
Joe knows Saudi well – he’s worked there as a doctor for years. But Roisin discovers her husband is keeping secrets from her about his time in the Desert Kingdom. Such as the drug thefts from his hospital. The friend he saw beheaded. The woman who fell to her death…
Soon the ghosts from Joe's past come back to haunt them both – and murder follows in their wake…
against medical advice. He made an effort and smiled at her. ‘I’m tired,’ he said. ‘I’m going home to rest. I’ll look after myself.’ ‘You do that. I don’t want to see you back in here.’ ‘You won’t,’ Damien promised. She’d brought his discharge notes and his medication. He was to take an antibiotic for the next ten days to quell the infection that had started in his hand. ‘I don’t think you understand how lucky you’ve been,’ she said. ‘These things can be killers.’ He smiled at her. ‘I was
close the subject. She wouldn’t leave it. He knew Amy. 10 KING SAUD UNIVERSITY WEB SITE English Department Student discussion forums Students may post articles or topics for discussion. All contributions must be appropriate and must be in English. Topic: Veiled Knowledge Ibrahim: Red Rose, why did you post this article for us to read? If you think as a woman in Islam you have the right of leadership, you are totally wrong, because this kind of job is only valid for men. For women to read
the end of the session, the talk turned to the different customs of Western and Saudi culture. ‘Tell me about the hijab,’ Roisin said. She still hadn’t grasped the rules governing its use. ‘Is this…’ she tried to think of an English word they would know ‘…custom?’ They looked blank. ‘Sunna,’ she tried–as far as she knew, this word expressed the concept of custom rather than compulsion. ‘And what about…?’ She made a gesture of covering her face. This elicited laughter round the group and the girls
permission to stay in the country. As far as she could see, she had no choice–either she did it Souad’s way, or not at all. Souad had been unreasonable–unprofessional even, in Roisin’s eyes. But it wasn’t Roisin’s opinion that counted here, as Souad had made very clear. She tried to work out what it was that she had done to cause this upset. She had run the classes as seminars–but that had been understood from the start. Seminars gave her access to the students, allowed the exchange of ideas and
happened. Except that she found her sister. That’s why she left Riyadh. Her sister was going to have a baby, in Paris. Amy trained as a nurse in Paris. She told me.’ ‘And her sister’s there?’ She looked at him. She was having trouble gathering her thoughts. Her glass was still full, which was odd because she could have sworn she’d been drinking it. She took another swallow of wine. ‘Paris. Amy was going to Paris to be an aunt.’ If her sister had lived, maybe she would be an aunt by now.