#1 Pick for LibraryReads

#1 Maclean’s bestseller

#3 New York Times bestseller

#6 Indie bestseller

#7 Publishers Weekly bestseller

“Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, perhaps contemporary crime fiction’s most original character—to say she is Pippi Longstocking with a Ph.D. in chemistry (speciality: poisons) barely begins to describe her—is finally coming home.”

—Maclean’s

“Plot twists come faster than Canadian snowfall….Bradley’s sense of observation is as keen as gung-ho scientist Flavia’s….The results so far are seven sparkling Flavia de Luce mysteries.”

—LibraryReads

“Even after all these years, Flavia de Luce is still the world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.”

—The Seattle Times