Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince’s future, but she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer. It shows off India’s multiplicity as a nation without getting heavy handed or lecturing, because we see it all through Perveen’s eyes, and for her, it’s all India too. However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Sujata Massey with Sneha Mathan (Narrator) 12 hours, 1 minutes first pub 2019 ISBN/UID: 9781980027232. The Satapur Moonstone is wonderfully textured in its characters and their interactions. The royal ladies are in a dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer’s counsel is required. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace’s deadly curse? However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men.

The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur’s two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident.

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. The Satapur Moonstone (A Perveen Mistry Novel) Sujata Massey 16.95 Publication Date: March 10th, 2020 Publisher: Soho Crime ISBN: 9781641291316 Pages: 408 Quantity Add to wishlist Available Formats Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days Description The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill.

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