Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a features reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun before becoming a full-time novelist. The first Perveen Mistry novel, The Widows of Malabar Hill, was an international bestseller and won the Agatha, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. Visit her website at sujatamassey.com.
Praise for the Perveen Mistry novels “Brilliantly pictured 1922 India.” —The New York Times Book Review “[An] excellent series.” —Boston Globe “Well-researched and convincing.” —The Wall Street Journal “Marvelously plotted, richly detailed.” —The Washington Post “Ms. Massey develops wonderfully strong, endearing and thoughtful women who solve mysteries . . . Quick moving, suspenseful and good wins out in the end.” —The Economist “Massey's evocative mysteries featuring Mistry have always woven political, cultural and critical social issues into a compelling historical mystery.” —Carole E. Barrowman, The Minneapolis Star Tribune “[The] series keeps getting stronger with each book.” —The Christian Science Monitor