Will I love A Case of Mice and Murder?

Start with this book, or with the next in the series, A Case of Life and Limb. Both are the kind of books you want to start over at the end--and recommend to others.

Gabriel Ward, academic sleuth, is a delight. Borderline autistic. Compassionate. Ethical. Very smart. I really preferred the 2nd in this series, A Case of Life and Limb, but I wasn't allowed to enter it as a favorite read for some (very frustrating) reason. So go ahead, read this first book to get to know the setting and the sleuth. Then go immnediately to the 2nd book to get to know Gabriel Ward better and the few people who learn to appreciate him as he investigates another mystery, a better one with TWO murders that need resolution.

Author Sally Smith is an English barrister and Kings Counsel who spent her working life in the Inner Temple and knows it intimately. It's a locked-away world that few glimpse, and she's set a reluctant detective -- barrister Gabriel Ward -- on his introverted, bookish hunt for a murderer. He's also charged with defending the publisher of a runaway bestselling children's book about the Temple mouse from a charge of stealing the book from a reclusive author. The richness of her words, the quirkiness of her characters, and the twistiness of her plotting absolutely delighted me.