***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
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 Saint 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 no such thing as an open-and-shut case.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
“Flavia, once more, entertains and delights as she exposes the inner workings of her investigative mind to the reader.” —National Post
“When our pigtailed heroine is around, there’s sure to be fireworks, and not just when her chemistry experiments have gone awry.” —The Chronicle Herald
“There are now five Flavia Deluce novels on bookshelves, but it only takes a few pages for Flavia to come to life and completely occupy the reader's imagination.” —The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers, CBC
“The book is a delight—mystifying enough to keep one turning the pages at a good clip, filled with dry wit, and peopled with vividly drawn characters. . . . In addi-tion to creating a witty and fast-paced mystery yarn, he sprinkles the pages with some intriguing tidbits about Flavia’s family and leaves us with a cliffhanger ending that will have the young sleuth’s fans champing at the bit for the next installment.” —Guelph Mercury
“With this charming character, these books never fail to entertain. Though it is fun to read the series in chron-ological order, each book has a complete story that is enjoyable on its own. Speaking From Among the Bones is an engaging addition to this quite original series. However, the last sentence of the book drops a bombshell that will leave readers frantic for book six.” —Times Online
“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
“Memorable, often funny prose complements the crafty plot of Bradley’s fifth Flavia de Luce novel. . . . The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight. Portraying an eleven-year-old as a plausible sleuth and expert in poisons is no mean feat, but Bradley makes it look easy. The reader never loses sight of Flavia’s youth, but also never wonders at the likelihood that someone with her qualities exists.” —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
Alan Bradley is the New York Times bestselling author of many short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce novels are The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d, The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place, The Golden Tresses of the Dead, and What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust, as well as the ebook short story “The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse.” Numb Were the Beadsman’s Fingers, the twelfth novel in the Flavia de Luce series, will be published in Fall 2026. He lives and writes on an island in the middle of the Irish Sea.
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***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
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 Saint 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 no such thing as an open-and-shut case.
Praise
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
“Flavia, once more, entertains and delights as she exposes the inner workings of her investigative mind to the reader.” —National Post
“When our pigtailed heroine is around, there’s sure to be fireworks, and not just when her chemistry experiments have gone awry.” —The Chronicle Herald
“There are now five Flavia Deluce novels on bookshelves, but it only takes a few pages for Flavia to come to life and completely occupy the reader's imagination.” —The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers, CBC
“The book is a delight—mystifying enough to keep one turning the pages at a good clip, filled with dry wit, and peopled with vividly drawn characters. . . . In addi-tion to creating a witty and fast-paced mystery yarn, he sprinkles the pages with some intriguing tidbits about Flavia’s family and leaves us with a cliffhanger ending that will have the young sleuth’s fans champing at the bit for the next installment.” —Guelph Mercury
“With this charming character, these books never fail to entertain. Though it is fun to read the series in chron-ological order, each book has a complete story that is enjoyable on its own. Speaking From Among the Bones is an engaging addition to this quite original series. However, the last sentence of the book drops a bombshell that will leave readers frantic for book six.” —Times Online
“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
“Memorable, often funny prose complements the crafty plot of Bradley’s fifth Flavia de Luce novel. . . . The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight. Portraying an eleven-year-old as a plausible sleuth and expert in poisons is no mean feat, but Bradley makes it look easy. The reader never loses sight of Flavia’s youth, but also never wonders at the likelihood that someone with her qualities exists.” —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
Alan Bradley is the New York Times bestselling author of many short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce novels are The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Speaking from Among the Bones, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d, The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place, The Golden Tresses of the Dead, and What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust, as well as the ebook short story “The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse.” Numb Were the Beadsman’s Fingers, the twelfth novel in the Flavia de Luce series, will be published in Fall 2026. He lives and writes on an island in the middle of the Irish Sea.
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