It is the summer of 1950 and Flavia de Luce is an 11 year old budding chemist in the small, fictional English town of Bishop’s Lacey. As she minding her own business (testing out chemistry experiments on her older sisters), mysterious things start to happen around her- first a dead bird with a postage stamp turns up on the family’s front doorstep, then she finds a man dying at 4am in the family’s cucumber patch! Her natural inclination to solve the mystery only increases when […]
I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
