. but charming as hell!A historical mystery, set in England, narrated by a precocious 11-year-old girl.

The story started off slowly, then picked up steam with a murder to solve and some interesting backstory on stamps. Michael Clifton—youngest son of an Englishman who had emigrated to America when he was in his late teens, in search of his fortun… 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. but charming as hell!An 11-year-old wunderkind detective who is obsessed with poison . I really don't have time for library books, but sometimes I have to make an exception.I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that this book was available at my library translated to Swedish. I wanted to like this book, as much as the title appealed to me, but only finished out of a sense of duty, having bought the book based on the reviews rather than borrowing it. . 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. She lives in a decaying mansion. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie has been read and crossed off of my TBR list. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a mystery by Alan Bradley published in 2009.

Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying bIt is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. The narrator-protagonist is one of the cleverest, liveliest, most entertaining characters I have had the pleasure to meet in many a year.

I really don't have time for library books, but sometimes I have to make an exception.If I were an eleven-year-old girl, I’d like to think I might resemble Flavia de Luce. The chemistry references are NOT, I repeat, NOT that hard to understand. Not knowing what trouble she might find herself in next kicked my curiosity into overdrive. Are you new to reading mysteries and thrillers and feeling overwhelmed by where to start? Adult preoccupations and values may confront Flavia, but they do not greatly impress her; by the story's end, the reader can only agree.A mystery about a precocious child, whom I would like to like, but suspect that she would not be enjoyable to be around. maybe more disturbing than the mystery she is solving . And there are other times when you deserve to be sent to your room with bread and water." "—Charles Todd, author of The Ian Rutledge series "A wickedly clever story, a dead true and original voice, and an English country house in the summer: Alexander McCall Smith meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I was horrified that I recommended this book to an Asian-American student earlier this year because of the things I had heard about it, and now I'm in the middle of it and came to that part.

As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer, a stranger is found …The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is…The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)The No. A different kind of mystery book that I found fascinating. She lives with her widowed father and two older sisters at Buckshaw - a decaying English country-side mansion.

If anything, they would instill an interest in the subject as any of Flavia's chemical musings are offered up with fantastic real life contexts.

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