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Old 08-30-2023, 02:27 PM   #7234
sufue
lost in my e-reader...
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I've mentioned a time or twenty or two hundred that Sarah Caudwell's too-short series featuring that Oxford don of unspecified gender, Hilary Tamar, is my favorite mystery series - at least most of the time. (It occasionally trades off with Catherine Aird's Sloan/Crosby books, either of Michael Pearce's series, and/or David Wishart's Covinus books, depending on my mood, but mostly it's this one...) This is a love-it-or-hate-it series, though, primarily depending, I think, on whether you like the bone-dry, understated humor.

However, the four books in the series have been pretty inconsistently available in e-book over the years, so it's nice to see that Bantam has now come out with new e-editions, and the first one, Thus Was Adonis Murdered, is on sale at the moment for $1.99, as part of Kindle US's "Plot Twist" sale, good through Sept 3. And it's matched at Kobo US.

Sadly, the new blurb doesn't do it justice, and, in fact, gets some plot elements just plain wrong, so I'm skipping the blurb.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593598733
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thu...nis-murdered-3
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