The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley

The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley.

In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.

Praise for The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

"Flavia [is] irrepressible, precocious and indefatigable. . . . A whole new chapter of Flavia's life opens as she approaches adolescence. Will she become the Madame Curie of crime?"--Bookreporter

"Outstanding . . . As usual, Bradley makes his improbable series conceit work and relieves the plot's inherent darkness with clever humor."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"There's only one Flavia. . . . Series fans will anticipate the details of this investigation, along with one last taste of Flavia's unorthodox family life."--Library Journal (starred review)

"Bradley's unquenchable heroine brings 'the most complicated case I had ever come across' to a highly satisfying conclusion, with the promise of still brighter days ahead."--Kirkus Reviews

Alan Bradley is the author of several short tales, children's stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible, which has been a New York Times bestseller. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, his debut Flavia de Luce novel, won the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association, as well as the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. The Weed That Threads the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, As Chimney Sweepers Fall to Dust, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, and The Grave's a Fine and Private Place are his other Flavia de Luce novels, as well as the ebook short story The Strange Case of the Copper Corpse.

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ISBN 13	9780345540003
ISBN 10	034554000X
Title	The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
Author	Alan Bradley
Series	Flavia De Luce
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2018-08-28
Number of pages	400
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.