***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MOLLY BELLE WRIGHT, MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***
NATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train’s arrival in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who was this man, what did his words mean, and why were they intended for Flavia? Back home at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ crumbling estate, Flavia puts her sleuthing skills to the test. Following a trail of clues sparked by the discovery of a reel of film stashed away in the attic, she unravels the deepest secrets of the de Luce clan, involving none other than Winston Churchill himself. Surrounded by family, friends, and a famous pathologist from the Home Office—and making spectacular use of Harriet’s beloved Gipsy Moth plane, Blithe Spirit—Flavia will do anything, even take to the skies, to land a killer.
NATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“That adorable and devious child Flavia de Luce is back. . . . Fans will love this.” —The Globe and Mail
“Part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Flavia is a pert and macabre pragmatist.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Monty Python made satirical hash out of the kind of stiff-upper-lipped characters that populate Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce books. But Bradley’s light and sympathetic touch turns the same types into adorable folk. . . . It adds up to a drama that sets upper lips atremble.” —Toronto Star
“[Flavia] is as addictive as dark chocolate and as English as Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending.” —The Daily Mail
“All in all, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches is a well-written lark and certainly stands a cut well above the vast majority of whodunits bought and then forgotten as long flight reading material. . . . The Flavia de Luce novels are so damnably entertaining.” —The Winnipeg Review
“Flavia, a crime fighter brimming with youthful exuberance but yet so vulnerable, continues to enchant. . . . The author charts what appears to be a new course, one that promises new adventures. But not necessarily smooth sailing.” —The Chronicle Herald
“Flavia retains her droll wit. . . . The solution to a murder is typically neat, and the conclusion sets up future books nicely.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[Alan] Bradley’s award winning Flavia de Luce series . . . has enchanted readers with the outrageous sleuthing career of its precocious leading lady. . . . This latest adventure contains all the winning elements of the previous books.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Bradley’s latest Flavia de Luce novel reaches a new level of perfection as it shows the emotional turmoil and growth of a girl who has always been older than her years and yet is still a child. The mystery is complex and very personal this time, reaching into the past Flavia never knew about. . . . These are astounding, magical books not to be missed.” —RT Book Reviews (Top Pick)
“It’s hard to resist either the genre’s pre-eminent preteen sleuth or the hushed revelations about her family.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Flavia . . . is as fetching as ever; her chatty musings and her combination of childish vulnerability and seemingly boundless self-confidence haven’t changed a bit.” —Booklist
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 MOLLY BELLE WRIGHT, MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***
NATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train’s arrival in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who was this man, what did his words mean, and why were they intended for Flavia? Back home at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ crumbling estate, Flavia puts her sleuthing skills to the test. Following a trail of clues sparked by the discovery of a reel of film stashed away in the attic, she unravels the deepest secrets of the de Luce clan, involving none other than Winston Churchill himself. Surrounded by family, friends, and a famous pathologist from the Home Office—and making spectacular use of Harriet’s beloved Gipsy Moth plane, Blithe Spirit—Flavia will do anything, even take to the skies, to land a killer.
Praise
NATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“That adorable and devious child Flavia de Luce is back. . . . Fans will love this.” —The Globe and Mail
“Part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Flavia is a pert and macabre pragmatist.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Monty Python made satirical hash out of the kind of stiff-upper-lipped characters that populate Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce books. But Bradley’s light and sympathetic touch turns the same types into adorable folk. . . . It adds up to a drama that sets upper lips atremble.” —Toronto Star
“[Flavia] is as addictive as dark chocolate and as English as Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending.” —The Daily Mail
“All in all, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches is a well-written lark and certainly stands a cut well above the vast majority of whodunits bought and then forgotten as long flight reading material. . . . The Flavia de Luce novels are so damnably entertaining.” —The Winnipeg Review
“Flavia, a crime fighter brimming with youthful exuberance but yet so vulnerable, continues to enchant. . . . The author charts what appears to be a new course, one that promises new adventures. But not necessarily smooth sailing.” —The Chronicle Herald
“Flavia retains her droll wit. . . . The solution to a murder is typically neat, and the conclusion sets up future books nicely.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[Alan] Bradley’s award winning Flavia de Luce series . . . has enchanted readers with the outrageous sleuthing career of its precocious leading lady. . . . This latest adventure contains all the winning elements of the previous books.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Bradley’s latest Flavia de Luce novel reaches a new level of perfection as it shows the emotional turmoil and growth of a girl who has always been older than her years and yet is still a child. The mystery is complex and very personal this time, reaching into the past Flavia never knew about. . . . These are astounding, magical books not to be missed.” —RT Book Reviews (Top Pick)
“It’s hard to resist either the genre’s pre-eminent preteen sleuth or the hushed revelations about her family.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Flavia . . . is as fetching as ever; her chatty musings and her combination of childish vulnerability and seemingly boundless self-confidence haven’t changed a bit.” —Booklist
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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