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The Shortest Way to Hades Review

The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell is a 207 page Adult Mystery novel.

It seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes on a five-million-pound estate: change the Trust arrangement. Everyone in the family agreed to support the heiress, Camilla Galloway, in her court petition - except dreary cousin Deirdre, who suddenly demanded a small fortune for her signature. Then Deirdre has a terrible accident, which is the moment when the London barristers handling the trust - Cantrip, Selena, Ragwort and Julia - decide to summon their Oxford mentor Professor Hilary Tamar to Lincoln's Inn. And when deadly accidents in the family escalate, Hilary is dispatched on the most perilous quest of all: to find the truth and unmask the killer...

I rate this book DNF/5 stars.

The main reason I DNF'd this book is because I couldn't stand the posh, difficult language the author used. I get that they are lawyers, but making a book approachable is still important. Ex. Chapter 9, very 1st sentence: 'And was, I need hardly say--though I must confess to a childish hope, unbecoming perhaps of a Scholar, of having aroused in my readers some measure of interesting apprehension--no more than soundly asleep.' The first 2 chapters are entirely a flashback, and I don't like that. Sometimes the characters respond to things that are written as exposition, rather than dialogue with is rather confusing and annoying.

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