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From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as âone of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.â
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether theyâre found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sistersâ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancredâs death, the English hamlet of Bishopâs Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saintâs tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove thereâs never such thing as an open-and-shut case.
Acclaim for Speaking from Among the Bones
â[Alan] Bradley scores another success. . . . This series is a grown-up version of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and all those mysteries you fell in love with as a child.ââThe San Diego Union-Tribune
âThe precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight.ââPublishers Weekly (starred review)
âFiendishly brilliant . . . Bradley has created an utterly charming cast of characters . . . as quirky as any British mystery fan could hope for.ââBookreporter
âDelightful and entertaining.ââSan Jose Mercury News
Acclaim for Alan Bradleyâs beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writersâ Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award
âEvery Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate.ââUSA Today
âDelightful.ââThe Boston Globe, on The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
âUtterly beguiling.ââPeople (four stars), on The Weed That Strings the Hangmanâs Bag
âIrresistibly appealing.ââThe New York Times Book Review, on A Red Herring Without Mustard
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- ISBN: 9780307879844
- File size: 289106 KB
- Duration: 10:02:18
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