Review: Highly Amusing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2013
Brother Hermitage and his friend Wat are sent to Grosmal castle to investigate a murder. Grosmal castle could be renamed The Asylum for the Criminally Insane. And, the inmates are in charge.  The travails that the two protagonists undergo, as well as the writing, is very amusing. The author has a knack for creating analogies - "as soft as week old milk" - and putting Hermitage and Wat in ridiculous situations.One can get a bit tired of the exercises in convoluted logic that appear frequently throughout the book.  Although  Brother Hermitage's systematic and analytic approach is no match for idiocy, he somehow he prevails in solving the murder. This is a lighthearted, fun read.