Sujata Massey

Sujata Massey is the author of 14 novels, two novellas and numerous short stories that have been published in 18 countries. Her novels have won the Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha, Lefty and Macavity awards and been finalists for the Edgar and Anthony prizes. Currently, Massey writes mystery and suspense fiction set in pre-Independence India, and she hs an earlier award-winning series set in modern Japan. Her latest book, "The Satapur Moonstone," is a mystery delving into tensions between India's British government and Indian nobility.

Born in England to parents from India and Germany, Massey was raised primarily in St. Paul, Minnesota, although her home for nealry 30 years has been Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a bachelor's degree in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and wrote features for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper before becoming a novelist. She is published in twenty countries and loves to talk with everyone about bicultural identity, historic cultures and women's rights, the main themes of her work.

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The Satapur Moonstone

Mystery / Thrillers
soho
May 2019
ISBN 9781616959098
360 pages
$26.95, INSTOCK

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The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident. The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. The royal ladies are in a dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer's counsel is required. However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince's future, but she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace's deadly curse? More/less

Widows of Malabar Hill

Mystery / Thrillers
Soho
November 2018
ISBN 9781616959760
416 pages
$15.95, INSTORE

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Bombay, 1921: 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. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights. Inspired in part by a real woman who made history by becoming India's first female lawyer, 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, Perveen Mistry. More/less