NATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious… one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.” – USA Today
Flavia
de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for
chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of
crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are
over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled
in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a
thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know
more than she’s letting on? What about Porson’s charming but erratic
assistant? 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?
Praise
“Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious . . . one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”—USA Today
“Utterly beguiling . . . wicked wit . . . The real delight here is [Flavia’s] droll voice and the eccentric cast.”—People (four stars)
“Bradley takes everything you expect and subverts it, delivering a smart, irreverent, unsappy mystery.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A pitch-perfect performance that surpasses an already worthy debut.”—Houston Chronicle
“Discovering Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce books is several steps beyond pleasure—it’s a sheer delight.”—Winston-Salem Journal
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious… one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.” – USA Today
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What about Porson’s charming but erratic assistant? 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?
Praise
“Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious . . . one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”—USA Today
“Utterly beguiling . . . wicked wit . . . The real delight here is [Flavia’s] droll voice and the eccentric cast.”—People (four stars)
“Bradley takes everything you expect and subverts it, delivering a smart, irreverent, unsappy mystery.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A pitch-perfect performance that surpasses an already worthy debut.”—Houston Chronicle
“Discovering Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce books is several steps beyond pleasure—it’s a sheer delight.”—Winston-Salem Journal
“Wickedly funny.”—The Times-Picayune