This Alan Bradley series is one of my favorites to recommend to others. Light and fluffy I describe the protagonist as a young and plucky Jessica Fletcher, a la TV’s “Murder She Wrote.” At this point Flavia is a pre-teen and still using her smarts to solve murders in her village, and I find these books, and her, delightful. This is the 8th installment and it’s been over a year since I read the 7th. As murder mysteries go, they have become a little predictable, […]
Too Sweet??
This book has been on my to-read list for a while and I’m not sure why I thought it was a southern gothic tale; perhaps I didn’t pay close enough attention to the reviews. When I finally got a copy of Alan Bradley’s novel, I was surprised to find that it’s set in the world of early 1950’s Britain, where Flavia de Luce, a precocious young woman with a keen interest in chemistry, lives with her father and sisters in a crumbling but once grand […]