From the Bookshelf of Tyler Public Library…

[close] "Your Mother has been found". She is coming home." Flavia has no memory of her Mother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances when Flavia was yet an infant. Flavia de Luce is a precocious, brilliant 11-year-old chemist/sleuth, who, in Bradley's latest novel, is investigating the circumstances surrounding her mother’s disappearance and untimely death. The year is 1951 and the de Luce family has gathered at Buckshaw Halt's little railway station to greet the casket bearing Flavia's mother, Harriet de Luce. Harriet de Luce disappeared ten years earlier on a secret government mission and her frozen body was recently discovered in a Himalayan crevasse. As the train prepares to depart, a strange man whispers in Flavia's ear that " the Gatekeeper is in danger..." Before Flavia can react, she is pulled away from the crowd toward her waiting family. Moments later, the stranger is dead, pushed to his death on the railway tracks. Is the stranger’s death related to the demise of her Mother? Was her Mother murdered?
This is an enjoyable cozy mystery recommended for fans of Maisie Dobbs.