Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, was raised mostly in St. Paul, MN, and lives in Baltimore, MD. She was a features reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun before becoming a full-time novelist. Her novels have won the Agatha and Macavity awards and have been finalists for the Edgar, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark prizes. Visit her website at sujatamassey.com.
For December, we bring you an excerpt from Sujata Massey's forthcoming novel, The Widows of Malabar Hill. Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India’s first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is part historical novel set in 1920s Bombay, part detective novel. Perveen, the ambitious female protagonist, has been taxed with executing the will of a wealthy Muslim mill owner, when she notices that his three secluded widows have oddly signed their inheritances over to charity in the wake of his death.