The Widows Of Malabar Hill, Massey - B +

                                  This is an intriguing and enjoyable novel set in Bombay in 1921. The principal character is Purveen Mistry, the first woman solicitor in India. It is based on the memoirs of an Indian  woman who returned home after studying law in England in the late 19th century. The mystery is about the three surviving Muslim wives of a successful businessman, the exceedingly complex estate inheritance world under Muslim law and the equally complex domestic laws of the Parsis community in India. It passes all of my historical novel tests: it is well-written, explores interesting times and places and puts the reader in the middle of it all.