The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie By: Alan Bradley

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie By: Alan Bradley Introduction

Meet eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950-and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buchshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstop, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned in its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he take his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earns when murder comes to Buckshaw.