Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Audiobook)

from MrsLee

Julia Larwood finds herself suspected of murdering a young man she just slept with in the afternoon. She is puzzled, to say the least as are her London colleges. As they work to solve the puzzle, she must wait in Venice. This was a good mystery. I was unable to come up with the solution, and it w...

from thornton37814

Julia, a British attorney with Inland Revenue troubles, travels to Italy and becomes the leading suspect in a murder case involving another British citizen. Some of her British colleagues begin to puzzle over the case in Britain, eventually traveling to Venice. While the writing style is more sop...

from Cariola

Let me start by saying that I am not a big fan of mysteries, which probably counts for my giving this book a rating lower than did most other LT readers. I just don't care for formulaic plots. Caudwell's Hilary Tamer series had been recommended to me by a number of LT friends, so I decided to giv...

from Jim53

Caudwell keeps up a tone of relentless silliness as she presents and solves a mystery from a distance, using letters and phone calls from the accused murderer to move her story along. The humor is mostly successful, and she does a nice job of progressively revealing relationships among the charac...

from marsap

The first mystery in Caudwell's series featuring amateur investigator Hilary Tamar and a cast of young London lawyers. When a young man is found dead in Julia Larwood's bed, her lawyer friends are the only ones who can uncover the truth of this murder. What I found most interesting about this boo...