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My personal favourite of the series!Brilliant story line with crime,chemistry and,well,Flavia’s family problems.Everything’s perfectly balanced and we get to know much more characters.(Also it’s the only Flavia de Luce book with a map inside,at least in the German version,which is quite helpful for the understanding.)As always Flavia is an incredible inspiring,clever and humorous character and narrator!She may be just 11 here,but I forget about that all the time,she’s a child and adult at the sa
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This second novel in the series is easy to follow without having read the first. The narrator, Flavia de Luce, alludes to some of the events of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, but those references do not provide vital information. She attaches significance, however to her experience in the first book: "Since the day I had found a body in the kitchen garden at Buckshaw, I had developed a fascination with death, with a particular emphasis on the chemistry of putrefaction.”
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