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After @Aims42 excellent reviews reminded me how much I wanted to read this series, I was excited to find it on Libby. I binged the audiobook over the long weekend while gardening and chauffeuring kids. The plot is a bit of a convoluted mess but who cares when you have phlegmatic Oxford scholar/sleuth Hilary narrating events. The humour is very wry and very British. Pity the poor fool who has to go Cambridge. A delight indeed!

Oxford Don Hilary Tamar is a new favorite character I‘d love to meet! She‘s quick, witty and per the author, “[an] individual who starts being elderly at the age of twenty-two” 🤣 I loved her, her fellow barristers (though I did keep reading Cantrip‘s name as ‘Catnip‘, which I like to think Caudwell did on purpose LOL). I‘m jumping right into the next book, “The Shortest Way to Hades” 🤩

Saturday night book and bed club commences! I‘m almost 70 pages into this delightful book, any British humor (or should I say ‘humour‘) fans will love it! I picture the characters as a mix from ‘Fawlty Towers‘, ‘Have you been Served?‘ and ‘Defending the Guilty‘ 😂

#BelovedCrimeSeries I'm sad that Sarah Caudwell passed on before she could write more of these deliciously clever and witty books, but it's helpful that there's only four in the series. It's one of the few series I've managed to complete. If you like crisp British humour, irreverent narrators, antics, jollity, & satisfying mysteries, these are for you. I'll let Jo Walton explain why it's great https://goo.gl/XzGkMm

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Opened this in bed at 12 this morning! So spoiled thank you @Kristel I love it all!! #letsgetcozy @cobwebmoth

These are some of the best mysteries I've read, and just hands-down some of the most wonderful books I've read. These are #WellLovedReads indeed. I'm sorry that this pic doesn't show off those fun Gorey covers, this isn't the best lighting. #riotgrams @bookriot #WhodunnitWednesday

An excellent cosy crime with a lively satirical tone. Written in the 80's and featuring a group of junior barristers at Lincoln Inn and their mentor Professor Tamar. Hugely enjoyable, for fans of Wodehouse, Edmund Crispen and Rumpole of the Bailey.