The Perveen Mistry Series - Book 3
The Bombay Prince
“With her easy-to-listen-to voice, Mathan masterfully conveys personality and subtly changes accents and intonation for the Indian and British characters…A well-written and well-performed invitation into Mistry’s complex world.”
Novel Suspects (audio review)
A Novel Suspects Pick of Best Audiobooks of the Month
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
Finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune Pick of Best Summer Reads
A Crime Reads Pick of Best Summer Novels
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Pick of Best Books of Summer
November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month 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 is 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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