Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell -- BOOK BEGINNINGS

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS

Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell

Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.

I got back from my vacation yesterday but I still pre-scheduled this post because I knew I would be jet lagged and have 1,000 to do after leaving my husband home without me for three weeks. So, again, my apologies if something goes wrong. 

MY BOOK BEGINNING

Scholarship asks, thank God, no recompense but Truth.

-- from Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell. This is the first of four legal mysteries featuring a pipe-smoking Oxford professor named Hilary Tamar. I wanted to read this one because it takes place in Venice and I read it when we were there last week. I also love mysteries with lawyers and campus novels, so this one ticked all my boxes. 

 

YOUR BOOK BEGINNINGS

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THE FRIDAY 56

The Friday 56 is a natural tie-in with Book Beginnings. The idea is to share a two-sentence teaser from page 56 of your featured book. If you are reading an ebook or audiobook, find your teaser from the 56% mark.

Freda at Freda's Voice started and hosted The Friday 56 for a long, long time. She is taking a break and Anne at My Head is Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.

MY FRIDAY 56

-- from Thus Was Adonis Murdered:

The Venetians, it seems, adopted St Mark as their patron saint in the ninth century, at which time the mortal remains of the Evangelist were reposing in Alexandria. To demonstrate their piety, the Venetians set out a body-snatching expedition, which abstracted the sacred corpse from its resting-place and brought it back through Customs between two sides of pork, so discouraging investigation by the fastidious Muslims.

FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

Set to have a vacation away from her home life and the tax man, young barrister Julia Larwood takes a trip to Italy with her art-loving boyfriend. But when her personal copy of the current Finance Act is found a few meters away from a dead body, Julia finds herself caught up in a complex fight against the Inland Revenue.

Fortunately, she’s able to call on her fellow colleagues who enlist the help of their friend Oxford professor Hilary Tamar. However, all is not what it seems. Could Julia’s boyfriend in fact be an employee of the establishment she has been trying to escape from? And how did her romantic luxurious holiday end in murder?