Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER �?� �??The world�??s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth�?� (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley.
In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia�??s grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia�??s mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder�??although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.
Praise for The Grave�??s a Fine and Private Place
�??Flavia [is] irrepressible, precocious and indefatigable. . . . A whole new chapter of Flavia�??s life opens as she approaches adolescence. Will she become the Madame Curie of crime?�?��??Bookreporter
�??Outstanding . . . As usual, Bradley makes his improbable series conceit work and relieves the plot�??s inherent darkness with clever humor.�?��??Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
�??There�??s only one Flavia. . . . Series fans will anticipate the details of this investigation, along with one last taste of Flavia�??s unorthodox family life.�?��??Library Journal (starred review)
 
�??Bradley�??s unquenchable heroine brings �??the most complicated case I had ever come across�?? to a highly satisfying conclusion, with t