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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 one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether theyre found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancreds death, the English hamlet of Bishops Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saints 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 theres never such thing as an open-and-shut case.
Acclaim for Speaking from Among the Bones
[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.The San Diego Union-Tribune
The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight.Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Fiendishly brilliant . . . Bradley has created an utterly charming cast of characters . . . as quirky as any British mystery fan could hope for.Bookreporter
Delightful and entertaining.San Jose Mercury News
Acclaim for Alan Bradleys beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award
Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate.USA Today
Delightful.The Boston Globe, on The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Utterly beguiling.People (four stars), on The Weed That Strings the Hangmans Bag
Irresistibly appealing.The New York Times Book Review, on A Red Herring Without Mustard
From the Hardcover edition.
