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Les enquêtes de Perveen Mistry Séries

Voyagez dans l'Inde des années 1920 avec une avocate pionnière naviguant dans un monde dominé par les hommes. Cette série plonge dans des affaires juridiques complexes, révélant des secrets de famille, des mobiles cachés et des injustices profondément ancrées. Chaque épisode offre un aperçu saisissant du paysage social et politique, à la fois vibrant et restrictif, du Bombay colonial.

The Bombay Prince
The Satapur Moonstone
Une aventure de Perveen Mistry: Les Veuves de Malabar Hill

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  1. Une aventure de Perveen Mistry: Les Veuves de Malabar Hill

    • 624pages
    • 22 heures de lecture

    LA PREMIÈRE AVOCATE DE BOMBAY MÈNE L'ENQUÊTE Années 1920, Inde. Perveen Mistry vient de rejoindre le cabinet d'avocats de son père, devenant la toute première femme avocate en Inde, un statut qui ne manque pas de faire débat. Mais quand un meurtre est commis dans une riche maison musulmane pratiquant la purdah (séparation stricte des femmes et des hommes) elle est la seule à pouvoir mener l'enquête. En effet, les seules survivantes - et potentielles témoins du crime - sont les trois veuves du riche marchand, vivant recluses dans une partie de la maison interdite aux hommes. Seule Perveen peut comprendre ce qui s'est réellement passé à Malabar Hill... Une enquête passionnante, qui nous plonge au cœur de la société indienne du début du XXe siècle et de la place qu'y occupent les femmes.

    Une aventure de Perveen Mistry: Les Veuves de Malabar Hill1
    4,0

  2. The Satapur Moonstone

    • 360pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    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 Satapur’s 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 Satapur’s 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 lawyer’s counsel is required. However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince’s 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 palace’s deadly curse?

    The Satapur Moonstone2
    4,0

  3. The Bombay Prince

    November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she’s horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince’s grand procession is passing by her college. Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death, and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. Feeling guilty for failing to have helped Freny in life, Perveen steps forward to assist Freny’s family in the fraught dealings of the coroner’s inquest. When Freny’s death is ruled a murder, Perveen knows she can’t rest until she sees justice done. But Bombay is erupting: as armed British secret service march the streets, rioters attack anyone with perceived British connections and desperate shopkeepers destroy their own wares so they will not be targets of racial violence. Can Perveen help a suffering family when her own is in danger?

    The Bombay Prince3
    3,9