![]() ![]() The second Perveen novel, THE SATAPUR MOONSTONE, won the Bruce Alexander Best Historical Mystery Award in 2020. Additionally, the book won the Bruce Alexander Best Historical Mystery Award, the Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery and the Mary Higgins Clark Award, all in 2019. THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL, the first Perveen novel, was named a Best Mystery/Thriller of 2018 and also an Amazon Best Mystery/Thriller of 2018. ![]() In June, 2021, THE BOMBAY PRINCE, third book in the series, releases in the US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand it will be published by Penguin India later the same month. She is best known for the Perveen Mistry series published in the United States by Soho Press and in India by Penguin Random House India. ![]() Sujata Massey is the author of historical and mystery fiction set in Asia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She lives outside Boston with her husband and daughter. ![]() She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of Washington. Internationally, The Age of Light won Le prix Rive Gauche à Paris, was a coups de couer selection from the American Library in Paris, and has been published or is forthcoming from over a dozen other countries. Whitney Scharer's debut novel, THE AGE OF LIGHT, based on the life of pioneering photographer Lee Miller, was published by Little, Brown (US) and Picador (UK) in February, 2019, and was a Boston Globe and IndieNext bestseller and named one of the best books of 2019 by Parade, Glamour Magazine, Real Simple, Refinery 29, Booklist and Yahoo. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. She lives outside Boston with her husband and daughter. Pan Macmillan, Paris (France) - 320 pages. 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