'Four unforgettable young women come alive in this novella story collection from a master storyteller.' Could not have said it better. In addition to writing, she loves to travel, read, cook, garden and walk. Sujata lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her family and two dogs. For more about Sujata's books and a full events schedule, subscribe to her newsletter, Sujata's other works include THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY (2013) and eleven Rei Shimura mysteries published from 1997-2014. The second Perveen novel, THE SATAPUR MOONSTONE, won the Bruce Alexander Best Historical Mystery Award in 2020.

Additionally, the book won the Bruce Alexander Best Historical Mystery Award, the Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery and the Mary Higgins Clark Award, all in 2019. THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL, the first Perveen novel, was named a Best Mystery/Thriller of 2018 and also an Amazon Best Mystery/Thriller of 2018. In June, 2021, THE BOMBAY PRINCE, third book in the series, releases in the US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand it will be published by Penguin India later the same month. She is best known for the Perveen Mistry series published in the United States by Soho Press and in India by Penguin Random House India. Sujata Massey is the author of historical and mystery fiction set in Asia. This book realistically reflects the 'gray' situations that in which cross-cultural characters find themselves, habitant a world irrevocably altered by almost 400 years of colonialism. As women lose their rights to go to school or walk outside their homes, three teenage girls conspire to change the situation. In the remote Northwest Frontier area of Pakistan, a peaceful Muslim village has been overtaken by foreign undamentalists. The collection rounds out with a thriller story, BITTER TEA. ALIPORE CLUB RULES, a short story set in early 1950s Calcutta, features Kabita Lewes, an Anglo-Indian teenager who struggles with her parents' intense relationship and her own anxieties.

A novella set in 1920s Bengal, THE AYAH'S TALE, features Menakshi, a teenaged ayah working for an elite British family, who wonders if she will ever have a chance to live for herself. Next in line is THE OXFORD INCIDENT, a mystery introducing Perveen Mistry, a young law student from Bombay who is tasked with finding a disappeared Indian servant at Oxford University in 1918. The title story, INDIA GRAY, is a poignant adventure set on the 1945 battlefront iof Assam, India and features Kamala and Simon, much-loved characters from the 2013 historical saga, THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY.

Travel to the Indian subcontinent with a new collection of Sujata Massey's suspenseful historical fiction.

The bombay prince by sujata massey