The Star from Calcutta — Coming in March!

I’m excited to share my happy news about a forthcoming book in the Perveen Mistry series! The Star from Calcutta is set in 1922 Bombay towards the end of rainy season, as the city prepares to celebrate the vibrant autumn Hindu holidays. Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay, is on the verge of securing a very special client: Champa Films, a movie studio run by director Subhas Ghoshal and his wife, Rochana, the biggest femme fatale in Indian cinema. Rochana is notorious for her beauty and stuntwork, but she has a heavy cross to bear: an endless vendetta from her original studio in Calcutta, where the owner believes she breached contract. Perveen’s needed to extract Rochana from her legal troubles.

To study Rochana and Subhas’s situation, Perveen attends a glamorous film screening in their home, bringing along her best friend, Alice Hobson-Jones. But in the aftermath of the wild party, one of the guests is found dead, and to make matters worse, Rochana has disappeared.

Now with a different legal obligation to her clients—protecting them from a developing murder case—Perveen begins to investigate, peeling back the glitz to reveal a salacious web of blackmail, deceit and romantic affairs. Perven has her own secret: a relationship with handsome ex-civil service officer, a passion that is harder to hide by the day. And just as troubling is a seeming mystery around Alice. For the first time in the women’s friendship, Alice is keeping secrets from Perveen. Is she hiding key information about the night of the murder? Will Perveen detangle truth from lies while protecting Alice—as well as herself?

My book releases March 3, and you can secure a copy to arrive to your home by pre-ordering. You can read an excerpt here. I’d also love to meet you at any of my book signings—check the events link. Let’s celebrate Perveen’s new adventure together.

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