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Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley.
This was the 8th in the Flavia de Luce series and one of my favorites. The author Alan Bradley is the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, The Barry Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, the Dilys Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for the Flavia de Luce series.
Flavia has arrived home at Buckshaw after her stay at Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada. She arrives to a non existent celebration of her homecoming. Th ...more
This was the 8th in the Flavia de Luce series and one of my favorites. The author Alan Bradley is the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, The Barry Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, the Dilys Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for the Flavia de Luce series.
Flavia has arrived home at Buckshaw after her stay at Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada. She arrives to a non existent celebration of her homecoming. Th ...more
Nov 08, 2016
Icewineanne
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I was thrilled to win a copy of this book from goodreads. Flavia is one of my favorite detecives. This is the latest "Flavia" mystery & she's back in the UK again - yeay!
I just love Flavia, she's so intelligent and witty beyond her years and yet she still has moments when she behaves her age. This is a puurfect book to read for the holidays even if you've not read any of the books in the series, it will not take away from your enjoyment of this story. Try this one and you'll want to go back to ...more
I just love Flavia, she's so intelligent and witty beyond her years and yet she still has moments when she behaves her age. This is a puurfect book to read for the holidays even if you've not read any of the books in the series, it will not take away from your enjoyment of this story. Try this one and you'll want to go back to ...more
I didn't really enjoy the previous book in this series, where Flavia was - rather pointlessly - sent off to school in Canada. I still don't feel this mystery quite got back to itself, but at least Flavia makes it back to Bishop's Lacey. However, if she was expecting a joyous homecoming, she was to be disappointed. Only faithful Dogger meets the ship and father is missing, ill in hospital.
At a loss, Flavia visits the vicar's wife, Cynthia, who sends her with a message to a local woodcarver. Cynth ...more
At a loss, Flavia visits the vicar's wife, Cynthia, who sends her with a message to a local woodcarver. Cynth ...more
Flavia DeLuce is asked by the minister's wife to go visit the local woodcarver to ask if he would repair a carving in the church. When she arrives she finds the body of the carver hung inside his bedroom door. She is on her own for the most part because her dear father is in the hospital with pneumonia and the family can't be keeping track of her. This was a good installment of the Flavia series and I am glad she is back in England. I liked the book but it wasn't the best in the series. I didn't
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Nov 14, 2022
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Having returned from Canada, and only being met by Dogger, Flavia is told that her father is ill in hospital. This doesn't stop Flavia from finding a new mystery to get her teeth in to. From doing a kind deed for the vicar's wife, she finds yet another dead body. This sets her on a road to finding that people are not always who you think they are. An author who has entertained children by his books for years, may not be as he is thought to be, and a woman in the vicinity has been let it be known
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My heart broke even though it’s inevitable.
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