EBOOK Speaking from Among the Bones
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A Flavia de Luce Novel
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR *; NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERFrom award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as &';one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.&' Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they&'re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters&' diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred&'s death, the English hamlet of Bishop&'s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint&'s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there&'s never such thing as an open-and-shut case.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley&'s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches.Acclaim for Speaking from Among the Bones &';[Alan] Bradley scores another success. . . . This series is a grown-up version of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and all those mysteries you fell in love with as a child.&'The San Diego Union-Tribune &';The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight.&'Publishers Weekly (starred review) &';Fiendishly brilliant . . . Bradley has created an utterly charming cast of characters . . . as quirky as any British mystery fan could hope for.&'Bookreporter &';Delightful and entertaining.&'San Jose Mercury News Acclaim for Alan Bradley&'s beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers&' Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award &';Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate.&'USA Today &';Delightful.&'The Boston Globe, on The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie &';Utterly beguiling.&'People (four stars), on The Weed That Strings the Hangman&'s Bag &';Irresistibly appealing.&'The New York Times Book Review, on A Red Herring Without Mustard
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR *; NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERFrom award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as &';one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.&' Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they&'re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters&' diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred&'s death, the English hamlet of Bishop&'s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint&'s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there&'s never such thing as an open-and-shut case.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley&'s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches.Acclaim for Speaking from Among the Bones &';[Alan] Bradley scores another success. . . . This series is a grown-up version of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and all those mysteries you fell in love with as a child.&'The San Diego Union-Tribune &';The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight.&'Publishers Weekly (starred review) &';Fiendishly brilliant . . . Bradley has created an utterly charming cast of characters . . . as quirky as any British mystery fan could hope for.&'Bookreporter &';Delightful and entertaining.&'San Jose Mercury News Acclaim for Alan Bradley&'s beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers&' Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award &';Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate.&'USA Today &';Delightful.&'The Boston Globe, on The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie &';Utterly beguiling.&'People (four stars), on The Weed That Strings the Hangman&'s Bag &';Irresistibly appealing.&'The New York Times Book Review, on A Red Herring Without Mustard