Richland Library Cooper
Shelf Indulgence Book Group
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Join us Tuesday, October 18, at 6:30p.m. for a discussion of The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey.
For more information or to get a copy of the book, please contact Elizabeth Barrett at (803) 787-3462.
Introducing Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer and its sharpest sleuth.
India, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left behind three widows. But Perveen notices something suspicious in the paperwork: all three wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they survive on? The widows live in full purdah - in strict seclusion, never leaving their quarters or speaking to men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? When Perveen investigates, tensions escalate to murder, and she must figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill before its innocent women and children meet further harm.
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