The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
After hearing good things about this story, I read all 370 pages
in half a day because it was that delightful. The author employs words so well, and creates a quite believable
eleven year old girl who is a sharp observer, a remarkable chemist, an a
complete pest as far as her older sisters are concerned. Flavia de Luce loves
chemistry and is especially fascinated by poisons. All of her introverted hours
spent in the huge chemistry lab (which a deceased uncle left to the family
mansion) gives her an edge over others when she embarks on the adventure of trying
to solve the mystery behind the body she discovers one morning in the kitchen
garden. Bradley weaves this story in such an enjoyable way that I think he
truly deserved the Dagger award he received for this first mystery involving
Flavia de Luce of Buckshaw mansion.
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