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A review by kristi_asleep_dreaming
The Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah Caudwell
3.0
When I was reading this I thought it was a perfect cozy mystery, ironic subgenre: lots of pleasant, mildly eccentric characters, amusing banter and byplay, most of the deaths not real tragedies for the viewpoint characters.
But the ending shocked me, and gave me uneasy dreams that night. What Daphne was doing to that poor man was just utterly horrible, making his life isolated misery, all under her guise of stupid niceness. What a horrible girl.
But then, murder mysteries do have murders in them, which should perhaps imply to the discerning reader that some of the characters maybe aren't so nice after all.
But the ending shocked me, and gave me uneasy dreams that night. What Daphne was doing to that poor man was just utterly horrible, making his life isolated misery, all under her guise of stupid niceness. What a horrible girl.
But then, murder mysteries do have murders in them, which should perhaps imply to the discerning reader that some of the characters maybe aren't so nice after all.