The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
A Flavia de Luce Mystery Book 1
By Alan Bradley
Harry Hartog's review
The Flavia de Luce Mysteries are perfect for fans of the Thursday Murder Club, who want more cosy English murders. Set in a seemingly idyllic 1950s crumbling country manner, 11-year-old Flavia delights in DIY-ing chemistry and poison experiments. And solving murders. These stories are as vivacious and precocious as their heroine, and always a deadly delight. - Maddi, Harry Hartog Maroochydore
Description
It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch.
The police are baffled and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more.
Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia - when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past.
- ISBN:
- 9780752891941
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 304
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint:
- Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Weight:
- 452 g