The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey. Published in 2019 by Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 7th floor, Infinity Tower C, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon 122002. Pp: 375. Price: Rs 399.
In The Satapur Moonstone, a remarkable whodunit, Perveen Mistry, a female lawyer who has studied at Oxford, plays the role of detective. After A Murder on Malabar Hill, in which we first encounter Mistry, author Sujata Massey captivates her reader in this atmospheric novel set in 1922 at Satapur, an imaginary princely kingdom in the Sahyadri mountain range.
Tragedy pursues the royal family of Satapur as both Maharaja Mahendra Rao......