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DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The worlds greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. 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. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavias grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavias mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave. Praise for The Graves a Fine and Private Place Flavia is] irrepressible, precocious and indefatigable. . . . A whole new chapter of Flavias life opens as she approaches adolescence. Will she become the Madame Curie of crime?--Bookreporter Outstanding . . . As usual, Bradley makes his improbable series conceit work and relieves the plots inherent darkness with clever humor.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Theres only one Flavia. . . . Series fans will anticipate the details of this investigation, along with one last taste of Flavias unorthodox family life.--Library Journal (starred review) Bradleys 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.--Kirkus ReviewsAbout the authorAlan Bradley is the New York Times bestselling author of many short stories, childrens stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce novels are The Weed That Strings the Hangmans Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mewd, and The Graves a Fine and Private Place, as well as the ebook short story The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse.
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