It's 1921 in Bombay, and Perveen Mistry, the heroine of The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey, has just become one of the first female lawyers in India. A fresh-faced graduate of Oxford Law School, Perveen is employed by her father's highly respected law firm and decides to devote her entire career to protecting women's rights. But Perveen's first case is far from conventional. Handling the deceptively unremarkable will of a wealthy Muslim mill owner, Perveen discovers her client has left behind three widows, all of whom have suspiciously signed over their inheritance to a charity. As Perveen shifts from lawyer to detective, tensions rise and murder ensues. It's up to her to expose the injustices taking place behind closed doors.