murder at a woman's college as new battles old over large legacy

Ruth Dudley Edwards worked as a civil servant for a long time, and her forte is to poke fun at the establishment, by exploiting all the ridiculousness of any system. My favourite RDE is this one. As usual, she aims to show the pettiness and stupidity of our age, by focusing on overzealous political correctness and hypocrisy, this time in an Cambridge college. As usual a clever and funny book with highly entertaining characters. In this book the very memorable Jack Troutback makes her entry and she does it with a stamina that is entirely her own. After the Matricide, she is on of the main characters of the series, and it is obvious as to why. Anybody who has ever encountered fanatics, what ever field it may be, and people who drive a cause for their own cause, but pretend otherwise, will recognise and enjoy themselves. ( )

If for some reason you want to read this book, don't expect a British cozy. This one is far from it. It is set at St. Martha's College, and the matricide refers to the death of the College's mistress. Set against a backdrop of warring factions on campus, the mystery, of course, is who killed the Mistress?

I didn't exactly love this book, but it was okay. I'm not really sure I'd recommend it except to really diehard British mystery fans. At times it was very long winded and I just wanted to get through it; the scenes of politics and the move to extreme political correctness were kind of funny. ( )