4.7+ so the first five star this year, what a start. A great view on India in the 1920s, an interesting and rather grim view on the position of women then and there and a great heroine, the first female lawyer Preveen Mistry in India, handling a sensitive case and trying to solve the murders included. I read this book during December and just finished in the days off from work. Loved this book! What a pleasant surprise and new writer for me, Sujata Massey, talented. In addition to writing, she loves to travel, read, cook, garden and walk. Sujata lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her family and two dogs. For more about Sujata's books and a full events schedule, subscribe to her newsletter, Sujata's other works include THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY (2013) and eleven Rei Shimura mysteries published from 1997-2014.

The second Perveen novel, THE SATAPUR MOONSTONE, won the Bruce Alexander Best Historical Mystery Award in 2020. Additionally, the book won the Bruce Alexander Best Historical Mystery Award, the Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery and the Mary Higgins Clark Award, all in 2019. THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL, the first Perveen novel, was named a Best Mystery/Thriller of 2018 and also an Amazon Best Mystery/Thriller of 2018. In June, 2021, THE BOMBAY PRINCE, third book in the series, releases in the US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand it will be published by Penguin India later the same month. She is best known for the Perveen Mistry series published in the United States by Soho Press and in India by Penguin Random House India. Sujata Massey is the author of historical and mystery fiction set in Asia. It's her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that nobody is in further danger. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate and realizes her instincts about the will were correct when tensions escalate to murder. The Farid widows live in purdah: strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. What will they live on if they forefeit what their husband left them? Perveen is suspicious. But as Perveen goes through the papers, she notices something strange: all three have signed over their inheritance to a charity. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's rights.

Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India.

The widows of malabar