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Old 09-13-2022, 12:18 AM   #6461
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The Bombay Prince is the third and most recent (2021) in Sujata Massey's Perveen Mistry historical series. It's on sale at Kindle UK for £2.34, and in the US for $2.99. I read and really liked the first in this series, The Widows of Malabar Hill, and this one was a finalist for several awards.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HKTRDFW
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08HKTRDFW
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-bombay-prince
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HKTRDFW
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HKTRDFW

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Bombay’s first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay.

November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she’s horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince’s grand procession is passing by her college.

Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death, and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. Feeling guilty for failing to have helped Freny in life, Perveen steps forward to assist Freny’s family in the fraught dealings of the coroner’s inquest. When Freny’s death appears suspicious, Perveen knows she can’t rest until she sees justice done. But Bombay is erupting: as armed British secret service march the streets, rioters attack anyone with perceived British connections, and desperate shopkeepers destroy their own wares so they will not be targets of racial violence. Can Perveen help a suffering family when her own is in danger?
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