There’s even more still! Flavia De Luce is back to solving crimes in this fourth increment of the series. “Excuse me,’ I said. ‘I’ve just remembered something.’ It was true. What I’d remembered was this: While I was not in the least afraid of the dead, there were those among the living who gave me the creeping hooly-goolies…” I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley takes place at Christmas time. Flavia, with her chemical analysis and experiments, is trying to catch Saint Nick. But, […]

And… she’s back! Yes, there’s more Flavia De Luce! If you thought this was going to be a duology, then think again! A Red Herring Without Mustard is the 3rd book of the Flavia De Luce series.  Flavia asked a Gypsy woman at a fair to tell her fortune, but never expected what happened next. She stumbled across the woman bludgeoned in the wee hours in her (the woman’s) carrivan. But was the crime committed an act of revenge (something that Flavia certainly understands, thanks […]

But wait, there’s more… Flavia De Luce is back! Thought you had seen the last of her? Well, think again! The Weed That Strings the Hangman‘s Bag by Alan Bradley is the sequel to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (see review here). To start, this was a good sequel. It had all the elements you loved from the first book, but it wasn’t redundant! I usually prefer the first book of the series, and the same applies here, but I still loved this […]

“I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.” The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley is a murder mystery set in the small town of Bishops Lacey in the 1950s English countryside. Flavia De Luce is an 11-year-old aspiring chemist (with a passion for poison). At Buckshaw, the once-grand home of the De Luce family, there is […]