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    1. Flavia de Luce: Book 3

      A Red Herring Without Mustard (2011)

      by Alan C. Bradley

      In the third installment of this bestselling, award-winning, sister-poisoning, bicycle-riding, murder-investigating, and utterly captivating series, Flavia de Luce must draw upon Gypsy lore and her encyclopaedic knowledge of poisons to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.   “You frighten me,”... (learn more about this book)

    1. Flavia de Luce: Book 4

      I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (2011)

      by Alan C. Bradley

      Christmas is coming and the snow is falling, but with the de Luce family finances in a perilous state, it's set to be a bleak mid-winter at Buckshaw. Which is why Colonel de Luce has - with deep misgivings - agreed to rent out the family home to a film company looking for the perfect English... (learn more about this book)

    1. Flavia de Luce: Book 2

      The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (2010)

      by Alan C. Bradley

      The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set. Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Punch... (learn more about this book)

    1. Flavia de Luce: Book 1

      The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (2009)

      by Alan C. Bradley

      For very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce manor, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Even more astonishing was the effect of the... (learn more about this book)

    1. The Shoebox Bible

      by Alan C. Bradley

      A beautifully written memoir of a family whose mother stores hope in a shoebox. As a child, during the cold, dark winter days of the Second World War, the author found hidden beneath a floorboard in his mother’s bedroom closet a well-worn cardboard shoebox. At the time he could make little... (learn more about this book)

    1. Flavia de Luce

      Flavia de Luce Books 1-3

      The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie / The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag / A Red Herring Without Mustard

      by Alan C. Bradley

      New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley has enchanted readers worldwide with one of the most award-winning mystery series ever. Featuring the irresistible, incorrigible eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, whom the Chicago Sun-Times called “a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine,”... (learn more about this book)