Cosy crime historical mysteries featuring Flavia de Luce - the teenage amateur sleuth you'll never forget. Perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz' Magpie Murders and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
Flavia is irrepressible, precocious, and indefatigable as she approaches adolescence, opening a new chapter in her life. Will she become the Madame Curie of crime? As usual, Bradley makes the series' improbable conceit work, balancing the plot's darkness with clever humor. Series fans will eagerly anticipate the details of this investigation, alongside a glimpse into Flavia's unorthodox family life. Those who share her enthusiastic belief that "an unexamined corpse was a tale untold" will delight in her resolution, which promises a dazzling array of innocent-seeming questions, intriguing chemical tidbits, and her signature bratty behavior. Bradley's unquenchable heroine brings "the most complicated case I had ever come across" to a satisfying conclusion, hinting at brighter days ahead. Acclaimed for the Flavia de Luce novels, which have won multiple prestigious awards, Flavia stands out as a bold, brilliant, and adorable sleuth. The delightful combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes makes her as addictive as dark chocolate. This plucky adolescent is terrifically entertaining, reigning as the world's foremost braniac, chemist, sleuth, busybody, and smartypants—no one can touch her in that category.
Mystery fans seeking novels of wit, an immersive English countryside setting, and rich characterizations will be rewarded with this newest entry in the award-winning series. - Library Journal (starred review) There is such a thing as willing suspension of disbelief brought on by sheer outlandish charm, and that's what [Alan] Bradley and some delicious writing have tapped. - London Free Press Flavia's first-person narration reveals her precocious intellect as well as her youthful vulnerability. - Shelf Awareness Flavia is once again a fun, science-loving protagonist. . . . This series entry ends on a note that begs for the next story. - Library Reads An eleven-year-old prodigy with an astonishing mind for chemistry and a particular interest in poisons. - The Strand Magazine (Five of the Best Historical Heroines) Bradley's preteen heroine comes through in the end with a series of deductions so clever she wants to hug herself. So will you. - Kirkus Reviews From the Hardcover edition.
The presumed death of Harriet de Luce in a mysterious mountaineering accident in Tibet while Flavia was only a baby cast a sombre shadow over the family, leaving Colonel de Luce a broken man and Flavia herself with no memories of her mother. But now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet's return is set to trigger a further series of bizarre and deadly events, as a most curious group of individuals converge on Buckshaw to pay their respects.
When the tomb of St. Tancred is opened at a village church in Bishop's Lacey, its shocking contents lead to another case for Flavia de Luce, where greed, pride and murder result in old secrets coming to light, along with a forgotten flower that hasn't been seen for half a thousand years.
"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects. But Flavia de Luce is more than ready to solve the wintry country-house murder. She'll have to be quick-witted, though, to negotiate the volatile chemicals of a cast and crew starting to crack--and locked in a house with a murderer!"--Provided by publisher
Krimi. Camped in her horse-drawn caravan at Buckshaw, a young Gypsy woman is charged with the abduction -and then the murder - of a local child, and Flavia must draw upon her encyclopaedic knowledge of poisons - and Gypsy lore - to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.
Jedenásťročná Flávia de Luce stratila mamu už v útlom detstve. Žije na anglickom vidieku s dvoma staršími sestrami a s otcom. Flávia je však zaujímavá osôbka – vyžíva sa v chemických pokusoch a vyzná sa aj v jedoch. Jedného dňa na záhone uhoriek v záhrade objaví mŕtvolu neznámeho muža, a keď jej otca zatknú, pustí sa do pátrania. Využije svoje vedomosti a kombinačné schopnosti a s nasadením života rieši prípad záhadnej vraždy. Podarí sa mladej detektívke prísť na koreň záhady a odhaliť nebezpečného vraha?
Flavia de Luce 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.
