Flavia De Luce mysteries

Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938
 
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Star rating for The sweetness at the bottom of the pie
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.
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Star rating for The weed that strings the hangman's bag
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
The intrepid Flavia de Luce applies her skills in the chemistry lab to solving the murder of a master puppeteer, a case that's further complicated--as always--by her tormenting sisters.
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Star rating for A red herring without mustard
Series Volume:
3.
Description:
Flavia's discovery of an old Gypsy woman who's been attacked in her wagon sends the girl off on an investigation that will reveal more of Buckshaw's secrets as well as new information about Harriet, the mother Flavia never knew.
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Star rating for I am half-sick of shadows
Series Volume:
4.
Description:
“Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate.”—USA Today
 
ALAN BRADLEY, AUTHOR OF THE MOST AWARD-WINNING SERIES DEBUT OF ANY YEAR, RETURNS WITH ANOTHER IRRESISTIBLE FLAVIA DE LUCE NOVEL.
 
“[Alan] Bradley has created one of the most original, charming, devilishly creative and hilarious detectives of any age or any time.”—Bookreporter
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Star rating for Speaking from among the bones
Series Volume:
5.
Description:
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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...
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Star rating for The dead in their vaulted arches
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her father and sisters at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who...
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Star rating for As chimney sweepers come to dust
Series Volume:
7.
Description:
"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review)--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley"-- "Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring...
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Star rating for Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
It's Christmastime, and in spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her father has fallen ill, and a hospital visit will have to wait while he rests. But with Flavia's blasted sisters and insufferable cousin underfoot, Buckshaw now seems both too empty--and not...
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Star rating for The grave's a fine and private place
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Joining her older sisters for a recuperative boating trip in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, 12-year-old Flavia de Luce discovers a body in the water near the church of a murderous vicar.
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Star rating for The golden tresses of the dead
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding," muses Flavia, "surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar." Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the...