Description
Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce, much to her dismay, has been forced to attend Miss Bodycote's Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother once attended, across the sea in Canada. But all is not lost: On Flavia's first day in captivity, a charred and mummified body tumbles out of a fireplace chimney in her bed- room. Now, while making friends (and enemies) and assessing the school's stern headmistress, Flavia is on the hunt for the victim's identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means. 22 When it comes to solving mysteries, Flavia is up to the task-but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.
ACCLAIM FOR ALAN BRADLEY'S BELOVED FLAVIA DE LUCE NOVELS,
winners of THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT DAGGER AWARD, BARRY AWARD, AGATHA AWARD, MACAVITY AWARD, DILYS AWARD, AND ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD
"Part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Flavia is a pert and macabre pragmatist."
-The New York Times Book Review
"This idiosyncratic young heroine continues to charm."
-The Wall Street Journal
ISBN:9780812999235
