Massey, Sujata

In 1921, Perveen Mistry is one of the first female lawyers in India. Working at her father's law firm, she finds herself investigating a strange case when three widows of a wealthy mill owner sign over their inheritance to a charity. Suspecting the woman are being taken advantage of, Perveen sets out to uncover the truth. What she finds leads to murder which makes her even more determined to protect the widows.

When Rei Shimura's instructor is killed, Rei and her aunt try to track down the killer, but soon the mystery hits close to home and Rei and her aunt find themselves having to explain family secrets and scandals.

Kamala, a young peasant woman from West Bengal, is drawn into a forbidden romance in 1930s Calcutta and is caught between the country's independence movement and the British colonial society in which she lives.

Rei Shimura, a twenty-eight-year-old, California-born antiques dealer living in Japan, is pleasantly surprised when she is asked to transport several valuable nineteenth-century kimonos to an American museum and lecture on them, but the trip goes awry when a kimono goes missing and Rei's passport turns up on a dead body in a dumpster.