Alan Bradley, Author Delacorte $24 (364p) ISBN 978-0-385-34231-5
Bradley’s endlessly entertaining follow-up to 2009’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
finds precocious 11-year-old Flavia de Luce once again indulging her curiosity about corpses. Wandering near her threadbare ancestral home in...
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Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-34232-2
In Bradley's outstanding third Flavia de Luce mystery set in post-WWII rural England (after 2010's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag), precocious 11-year-old Flavia de Luce and her family pursue their different interests. Flavia's widowed...
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Alan Bradley. Delacorte, $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-34401-2
Christmas comes early for precocious Flavia de Luce with the arrival of a glamorous London film crew at Buckshaw, her family’s country house, in Agatha-winner Bradley’s fourth post-WWII mystery starring the endearing 11-year-old sleuth (after...
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Alan Bradley. Delacorte, $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-34405-0
The mystery is personal for Flavia de Luce in Bradley’s excellent sixth novel featuring the precocious 11-year-old sleuth in post-WWII England (after 2013’s Speaking from Among the Bones). The body of Harriet de Luce, her mother who disappeared in a
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Alan Bradley. Delacorte, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-53993-9
Set in 1951, Bradley’s exceptional seventh series whodunit (after 2014’s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches) takes Flavia de Luce, a preteen with an interest in poisons, from her family home in Bishop’s Lacey, England, to Canada, where she is to...
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Alan Bradley. Delacorte, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-34553-996-0
Bestseller Bradley’s lively eighth Flavia de Luce novel (after 2015’s As Chimney Sweeps Come to Dust) finds the preadolescent chemist and detective back at Buckshaw, her crumbling family estate in England, after being dishonorably discharged from...
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Alan Bradley. Delacorte, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-53999-1
Set in England in 1952, Agatha-winner Bradley’s outstanding ninth Flavia de Luce novel (after 2016’s Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d) finds 12-year-old Flavia contemplating suicide in the wake of a family tragedy. To relieve the increased tension...
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Alan Bradley. Delacorte, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-54002-7
A ghoulish question is at the heart of Bradley’s excellent 10th Flavia de Luce novel set in 1950s England (after 2018’s The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place): “How had an embalmed finger found its way from the hand of a dead woman in a Surrey...
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C. Alan Bradley, read by Jayne Entwistle. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-449-80765-1
Those who’ve delighted in the seven previous 1950s-era mysteries narrated by precocious British preteen Flavia de Luce are sure to enjoy her eloquent if sometimes snarky new account. Returning to her ramshackle family home in Bishop’s Lacey, England,
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Alan Bradley, Author, C. Alan Bradley, Author Delacorte $23 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-34230-8
Fans of Louise Fitzhugh's iconic Harriet the Spy will welcome 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce, the heroine of Canadian journalist Bradley's rollicking debut. In an early 1950s English village, Flavia is preoccupied with retaliating...
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Alan Bradley. Delacorte, $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-34403-6
Memorable, often funny prose complements the crafty plot of Bradley’s fifth Flavia de Luce novel (after 2011’s I Am Half-Sick of Shadows). The year 1951 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of St. Tancred, who gave his name to 11-year-old Flavia’
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