The Widows of Malabar Hill

Bombay, 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 of the 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.