I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, by Alan Bradley, is the newest installment of his Flavia de Luce mystery series. The only problem I have with this book is that I already finished it, and now I have to wait until he writes the next one. Flavia is just SUCH an interesting character that it is nearly impossible to stop reading her books once started. After all, how many 11-year-old-girl-chemistry-geniuses-with-a-penchant-for-stumbling-upon-murders do you know? And now, back to the book...
Flavia and her family live at Buckshaw, the ancestral de Luce estate. It is an idyllic English country home with not so idyllic debt trouble. So, Flavia's father rents the estate to a film production company, and that is when mayhem ensues. Oh, it's also Christmas, and Flavia is determined to prove that Santa exists, whilst at the same time proving her horrid older sisters wrong. This will involve some rather sticky chemistry. Literally.
Does Flavia catch Santa, or just a murderer? It's elementary, my dear...Read the book!
What? No way!
ReplyDeleteThere's another Flavia de Luce book?
Mary, you have just made my day!
I love these books. It was Flavia that first led me to your blog (looking for Red Herrings with Mustard if memory serves).
Thank you, thank you. Now excuse me I have to go order a book.
Ian
She's the best! Just stay on her good side...
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