THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL
I’m not usually a mystery reader, but I just started Sujata Massey’s wonderful novel THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL and I cannot put it down. The book is the first in a series and takes place in 1920s Bombay as Perveen Mistry, the city’s only female lawyer, investigates a client’s very suspicious will. My favorite element of the novel is the changing relationship between Perveen and her best friend from her time at Oxford, British socialite Alice Hobson-Jones. As friends from college do, the two notice their friendship shifting with time and distance, but things grow even more complicated when Alice travels to Bombay to visit her parents—who are government officials serving under George Lloyd. I’m absolutely loving this book and can’t wait to read the next two in the series.
—Rosemary Brennan, Marketing Consultant
