NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The world\'s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth ( The Seattle Times ), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery Novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley. -- Kirkus Reviews. -- Library Journal (starred review) Bradley\'s unquenchable heroine brings \'the most complicated case I had ever come across\' to a highly satisfying conclusion, with the promise of still brighter days ahead.
Series fans will anticipate the details of this investigation, along with one last taste of Flavia\'s unorthodox family life. . . . -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) There\'s only one Flavia.
As usual, Bradley makes his improbable series conceit work and relieves the plot\'s inherent darkness with clever humor. . .
Will she become the Madame Curie of crime? -- Bookreporter Outstanding .
A whole new chapter of Flavia\'s life opens as she approaches adolescence. . . .
Praise for The Grave\'s a Fine and Private Place Flavia is] irrepressible, precocious and indefatigable.
If anything could take Flavia\'s mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.
But in Flavia\'s grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body.
She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish.
Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water.
As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic.
For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters.
In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The world\'s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth ( The Seattle Times ), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery Novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley
