![]() ![]() With her own wits and snippets of overheard information from the police, Flavia begins her own line of inquiry. Flavia does not sit idly on the sidelines when she worries that Father -whom she had seen arguing with the stranger in his study the evening before-or his doggedly loyal jack-of-all-trades, Dogger, might have been involved. These skills prove useful when a man dies in the de Luce vegetable garden just hours after a dead bird shows up on the kitchen doorstep with an unusual item in its beak: a postage stamp. Her inquisitive and independent nature seems to have been inherited from her late mother rather than her distant, philatelist father. She has a passion for poison-and all things chemistry-that she is able to cultivate in the laboratory of Buckshaw, her family estate in rural England. Flavia is not your typical post-war pre-teen Briton. “So,” you may ask, “is she the titular ‘sweetness’ in the story?” Absolutely not. ![]() From the opening paragraph (no small feat!), Bradley brilliantly weaves a web of murder, privilege, and PTSD around the protagonist and sleuth, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce. In The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley you will find a new classic in the mystery genre. A Great Treat in the Mystery Genre: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie ![]()
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