Trial and Error

This is one of my all-time favorite mystery stories. I am very lucky to have stumbled across it.

There's no denying the premise of this novel--a murderer struggling to prove his guilt rather than his innocence--is unique, and the set-up to that premise, which takes up the first half of the book, is wonderful fun. The protagonist Todhunter is delightful--eccentric, irascible, bull-headed and oddly endearing.

This book is amazing!! It takes your standard mystery novel and turns it upside down and sideways.