'The Bombay Prince' by Sujata Massey takes out 7th place on our 2022 Review Season recommendations. The novel, which covers the arrival of Prince Edward the 8th in Bombay through the eyes of India’s first and only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is primed to open our eyes to the everyday conflicts that erupt between the British powers and the everyday Indian citizen, as well as every in between that is caught up in this historical struggle of identity. As part of our breakdown in 2021 we had a nice long chat about how Indian murder mystery is a perfect genre to rediscover the heritage of India itself. It is a genre that is all about going through incredibly difficult and often thankless work in order to uncover long forgotten and inconvenient truths that expose the true villains of the story.

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