Sarah Caudwell

Sarah Cockburn, who wrote under the pseudonym of Sarah Caudwell (27 May 1939 – 28 January 2000) was a British barrister and author of detective stories. Her series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999 centered on a group of young barristers practicing in Lincoln's Inn, narrated by a Hilary Tamar, a professor of medieval law whose gender is never specified, who fills the role of detective. Provided by Wikipedia