20 Books of Summer (Winter) 2024

I've not been very active on this blog due to a number of reasons, so I'm hoping that this reading challenge hosted by Cathy @ 746 Books will provide a boost for my reading and reviewing.

The challenge will run from June 1st to September 1st, the winter months here in Australia.

Cathy claims to be the slackest of challenge hosts, suggesting that it is okay to aim for less than 20

A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins Book Review

A Bitter Remedy is the first of a new mystery series from the author of the Teifi Valley Coroner series. While the latter is firmly set in Wales, the new series is set in Oxford with links to Wales through Jesus College and one of the main characters, Rhiannon (Non) Vaughan, one of a small number of female students allowed to attend lectures.

When a Jesus College undergraduate is murdered, Basil Rice, a College fellow, is asked to mitigate any scandal that could arise after the young man's guardian threatens to sue the College. Basil uncovers much about the student he didn't know and his task to keep things quiet becomes much harder when Non inserts herself into his investigation, causing havoc on more than one occasion with her actions.

Basil and Non are definitely a mismatched