Flavia de Luce 01; The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie

✍ Scribed by Bradley, Alan

• Book ID: 107839604
• Publisher: [Côte d’Azur]
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 277 KB
• Series: Flavia de Luce 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce’s cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel’s doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel’s daughter, the precocious Flavia – when she’s not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is – has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim’s identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family’s murky past. Flavia and her family are brilliant creations, a darkly playful and wonderfully atmospheric flavour to a plot of delightful ingenuity.