It is 1922 and Perveen Mistry, the first lady lawyer in Bombay, is hired by The Kolhapur Agency, which manages, on behalf of the Colonial British government in India, the princely states in the western region. She is to travel to the kingdom of Satapur, about 300 miles away, as…
To pigeon-hole Sujata Massey’s fascinating new novel A Murder at Malabar Hill would be a crime
Whilst classified as a crime novel it’s a shame to pigeon-hole A Murder at Malabar Hill the latest offering by prize-winning author Sujata Massey. Certainly there are several intriguing crimes, and villains aplenty, but like many of her previous cross-cultural novels, it offers much more. Its meticulous plotting, rich and…