Winner and Top Pick of the 2019 American Library Association Reading List for Mystery. Winner of the 2019 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Winner of the 2019 Lefty Award for Best Historical Novel. Winner of the the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Finalist for the 2019 Shamus Award. Finalist for the 2019 Harper Lee Legal Fiction Prize.

Introducing Perveen Mistry, a courageous young lawyer-turned-sleuth in a stunning murder mystery.Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen Mistry has joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India.Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr Omar Farid, a wealthy mill owner who has left three widows behind. But when Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something that seems very strange.As Perveen inches closer to the truth, tensions escalate to murder, the widows fall under suspicion and Perveen must figure out what’s really happening on Malabar Hill.