num_pages: 361
description: The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill .India 1922: It is rainy season in the lush remote Sahyadri mountains where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapurs royal family whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident. The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapurs two maharanis the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. The royal ladies are in a dispute over the education of the young crown prince and a lawyers counsel is required. However the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one person can help Perveen Mistry Bombays only female lawyer. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young princes future but she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Too late she realizes she has walked into a trap. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palaces deadly curse?
language: English
title: The Satapur Moonstone
publisher: Soho Crime