What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X - meaning she probably couldn't even read the document.

But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her. 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 author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric new historical mystery with a captivating heroine. To get an occasional newsletter from Sujata with events, giveaways, recipes and other news, sign up for the Sujata Massey author newsletter.Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth.ġ920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. Sujata welcomes correspondence from authors at her website the Sujata Massey Author Facebook page and on Instagram You can also learn more about the history and visual inspiration for her books at the Pinterest handle, Perveen Mistry Novels. in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and wrote features for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper before becoming a novelist. Paul, Minnesota, although her home for almost thirty years has been Baltimore, Maryland. Sujata writes mystery and suspense fiction set in pre-Independence India, as well as a modern mystery series set in Japan.īorn in England to parents from India and Germany, Sujata was raised primarily in St. Her novels have won the Agatha, Lefty, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark prizes and been finalists for the Edgar, Anthony, and Harper Lee literary awards. Sujata Massey is the author of fourteen novels, two novellas and numerous short stories that have been published in eighteen countries.

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