CoffeeCake & Crime Book Club

Join us to discuss The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey.

India, 1921: Perveen Mistry, daughter of a respected family, just joined her father's law firm. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her. Misty Law has been appointed to execute the will of a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left behind three widows. Perveen notices something suspicious in the paperwork: all three wives have signed over their inheritance to a charity. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? When Perveen investigates, tensions escalate into murder....

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.

Please note: Spaces are limited. Registration is required. 

This book is available as an eAudiobook on Hoopla and eBook through Axis 360 and Overdrive with a Frankfort library card. Copies are available to check out at the Library one month prior to discussion.

Coffee cake is generously provided in memory of Mary Koch, FPLD Librarian and founder of Coffeecake & Crime.