Ebooks and digital audiobooks are now sold and managed in OverDrive MarketPlace. Learn more. Continue to this site to purchase physical audio and large print only.

The Widows of Malabar Hill

A Perveen Mistry Novel: Book 1
CD - unabridged
(12 CDs)
Product Number: CX5917
Released: 01 Feb, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781528888745
Narrator(s): Soneela Nankani
Publisher: W F Howes
Please log in to view pricing

Description

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. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen is going through the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on if they forfeit what their husband left them? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X - meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah - in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realises her instincts about the will were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger. 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. "The Widows of Malabar Hill, with its deft prose and well-wrought characters, is a splendid first installment in what promises to be a memorable series." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "Marvelously plotted, richly detailed . . . This is a first-rate performance inaugurating a most promising series." THE WASHINGTON POST

Author(s): Sujata Massey
Series: A Perveen Mistry Novel Series No:1
Original Publish Date: 01 Feb, 2020

All Formats/Editions

MP3 CD
x-large
Author(s): Sujata Massey
Narrator(s): Soneela Nankani
Series:
Product Number MPCD4749
Released: 01 Feb, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528888752

Stay up to date with W.F.Howes news and announcements

The Home of Audiobooks & Large Print