I thought Flavia cleverly followed the thread of the mystery, having her own child-like moments here and there between highly analytical research, experiments and deductions. Sort of the only-I-can-mess-with-my-sister type of thing. There’s an undercurrent of protectiveness and caring in there, too. She has an interesting relationship with her two older sisters which mostly consists of giving each other a hard time and playing tricks on one another. I liked what I’d read, but got sidetracked by other things and didn’t pick it up again until now.įlavia is spunky and whip-smart. I borrowed THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE from the library but only got maybe halfway through before having to return it.
( From the publisher.A long time ago, after I reviewed and enjoyed a mystery featuring a young narrator, someone suggested the Flavia de Luce series to me. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder-but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse.Īn 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. 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. 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. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”
“I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.
Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. 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. 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.
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