It is 1951. Flavia is the eleven-year-old daughter of Colonel de Luce, widower and owner of their beloved but beleaguered English country estate, Buckshaw. Beleaguered because his wife and heir to the estate died intestate during a Himalayan climbing expedition ten years earlier. Despite her young age, Flavia is chemist and detective extraordinaire, and her skills are put to use once again when the organist at St. Tancred's is found dead in said Saint's tomb, apparently suffocated by a WWII gas mask. Thus Flavia begins her latest investigation, much to the chagrin of the local police, her family and eventually, the culprits.
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley is the fifth book in the Flavia de Luce series. There is nothing I don't like about his books. I love Flavia, her sometimes horrid older sisters, her haunted and distracted stamp-collecting father, his factotum Dogger, their cook/confidant Mrs. Mullett, and all the villagers in Bishop's Lacey. This is my only complaint: I've finished the book, and now I have to wait for the next one!!
Goodbye until next time, Flavia. I miss you already. TBC
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