Thus was adonis murdered

4.5 stars

Omg, her style. How can every sentence be so delightful?

This is the first of the four Hilary Tamar mystery novels by Sarah Caudwell. If you're the target demographic, you will adore them: anglophile, intellectual aspirations, weakness for epistolary novels. Go read the wikipedia entry about Caudwell — if she sounds interesting to you, you'll love these books, too.

I love that the gender of the narrator, legal scholar Hilary, is never revealed. I adore that the action almost all gets told as someone reading an improbably long letter, or the friends chatting over either coffee or drinks.