Speaking From Among the Bones
A Flavia de Luce Mystery (5)
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4.7 • 60 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of Saint Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than
Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s no such thing as an open-and-shut case.
Customer Reviews
The Five Flavias
I have read all five Flavia tales in the ten days since they first came to my attention, even though eReading is hard on an octogenarian's eyesight. Please, Mr. Bradley, learn to write with both hands and faster. I can't wait to read more of this delightful character's antics, told with such wit, grace and erudition. I shall never forgive you if I die before reading at least one more. Hurry up!
The best of the series
Loved this book. Flavia is really coming into her own and I love her more with each book. Curse Mr. Bradley for this ending though. He had better be writing the next one in double time.