The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce #1)
In his wickedly brilliant
first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most
singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de
Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of
1950—and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying
English mansion that Flavia’s family calls home. A dead bird is found on the
doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia
finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying
breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest
when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t.
Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever
happened to me in my entire life.”
To Flavia the investigation
is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and
connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is
seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm,
Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story—of a schoolboy
friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and
brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from
the school’s tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than
enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects,
and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England
himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder—but
protecting her and her sisters from something even worse….
An enthralling mystery, a
piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
is a masterfully told tale of deceptions—and a rich literary delight.
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce #2)
From Dagger Award–winning
and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly
beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de
Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and
a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two
deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.
Flavia thinks that her days
of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over—and
then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved
puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why?
For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her
chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big
sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’
crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.
Does the madwoman who lives
in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd
ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German
pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a
box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the
charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years
earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But
in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of
death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?
A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce #3)
Award-winning author Alan
Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever
and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist
with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of
Bishop’s Lacey—mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a
corpse in Flavia’s own backyard.
Flavia had asked the old
Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor
soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of
retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child
years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge
is a delightful pastime when one has two odious older sisters. But how could
this crime be connected to the missing baby? Had it something to do with the
weird sect who met at the river to practice their secret rites? While still
pondering the possibilities, Flavia stumbles upon another corpse—that of a
notorious layabout who had been caught prowling about the de Luce’s drawing
room.
Pedaling Gladys, her
faithful bicycle, across the countryside in search of clues to both crimes,
Flavia uncovers some odd new twists. Most intriguing is her introduction to an
elegant artist with a very special object in her possession—a portrait that sheds
light on the biggest mystery of all: Who is Flavia?
As the red herrings pile
up, Flavia must sort through clues fishy and foul to untangle dark deeds and
dangerous secrets.
I Am Half Sick Of Shadows (Flavia de Luce #4)
It’s Christmastime, and the
precocious Flavia de Luce—an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for
chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving—is tucked away in her laboratory,
whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when
a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ decaying English estate, to
shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the
entire village of Bishop’s Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform,
yet nobody is prepared for the evening’s shocking conclusion: a body found,
past midnight, strangled to death with a length of film. But who among the
assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and
the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her
disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.
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