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Title details for The Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah Caudwell - Wait list

The Sibyl in Her Grave

#4 in series

by Sarah Caudwell
Lorna Bennett
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Follow the money in this gripping literary puzzle—the fourth and final installment of Sarah Caudwell’s brilliant Hilary Tamar mystery series.

“Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers.”—A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
Julia Larwood’s Aunt Regina needs help. She and two friends pooled their modest resources and invested in equities. Now the tax man demands his due, but they’ve already spent the money. How can they dig themselves out of the tax hole? Even more to the point: Can the sin of capital gains trigger corporeal loss?
That’s a question for the sibyl, psychic counselor Isabella del Comino, who has offended Aunt Regina and her friends by moving into the rectory, plowing under a cherished garden, and establishing an aviary of ravens. When Isabella is found dead, all clues point to death by fiscal misadventure.
So Julia calls in an old friend and Oxford fellow, Professor Hilary Tamar, to follow a money trail that connects Aunt Regina to what appears to be capital fraud—and capital crime. The two women couldn’t have a better champion than the erudite Hilary. Once again Sarah Caudwell sweeps us into the scene of the crime, leaving us to ponder the greatest mystery of all: Hilary themself.
Don’t miss any of Sarah Caudwell’s riveting Hilary Tamar mysteries:
THUS WAS ADONIS MURDERED • THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES • THE SIRENS SANG OF MURDER • THE SIBYL IN HER GRAVE

  • Creators

  • Series

    Hilary Tamar

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  • Release date

    April 2, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593662847
      • File size: 317276 KB
      • Duration: 11:00:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Julia Larwood receives a letter from her aunt detailing some unexpected tax problems. Her friend, the ambiguously gendered Oxford professor Hilary Tamar, and fellow barristers uncover evidence of insider trading and blackmail. Most of the action in this mystery is revealed through letters, and narrator Eva Haddon's whispered intensity makes the listener privy to everyone's secrets. Her voice is lovely, breathy, throaty, deep. In the author's parody of a novel of manners, Haddon delivers the expected stock characters--tight-lipped spinsters, tight-fisted bankers, and a cleric who is usually tight. When Caudwell adds a psychic counselor who may be leaking stock tips, undercurrents of nontraditional sexual orientation, and a couple of murders, Haddon's performance adds just the right contemporary flavor. Sadly, Caudwell, the witty, erudite author of three other novels, died in 2000. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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