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Sujata Massey

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Sujata Massey is the author of historical and mystery fiction set in Asia. 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. 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.

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. 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 second Perveen novel, THE SATAPUR MOONSTONE, won
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A Twisting Trail to Kodagu, aka Coorg

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Has a place name caught your ear and not let it go? I have always felt that way about the region in Karnataka called Coorg. The name of the hill station is so unusual. It’s mysterious, while still being easy to remember.

This past January, I finally reached Coorg and learned that the name has roots in colonialism alone. In the 1830s,

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“Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.”
Sujata Massey, The Sleeping Dictionary

“Crockery broke and fabric frayed. The delicate things I cared about perished, while the hard things like swords survived.”
Sujata Massey, The Samurai's Daughter

“We worship differently, but we are not so far apart in our hearts,”
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