Alan Bradley - Flavia de Luce 02 - The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Read by: Jayne Entwistle
Unabridged: Yes
Audio: MP3, 2-channel, 128 Kbps @ 48000 Hz, CBR
Runtime: 18h 37mn 13sec
The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set.
Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Punch & Judy - and in particular Mr Punch's nemesis, the hangman, Jack Ketch - a frighteningly realistic puppet show, and a hitherto unexplored corner of Bishop's Lacey known as Gibbet's Wood. The plot, beginning with the arrival in Bishop's Lacey of a travelling puppet show, features a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall and reaches back to an earlier, even nastier crime centring on an ancient, rotting gibbet that has lain like a shadow over the village for years.
For Flavia, undoing the complex knot that ties these strands together will test her precocious powers of deduction to the limit - and provide a shocking insight into some of the darker corners of the adult world.
Well, time for a little CanCon (Canadian Content), as we say in the Great White North.
New series, new author (at age 70!), and already a phenomenon - fan sites, International Fan Clubs, and even a dedicated cult following. The only thing that surprises me is that our heroine has not yet been compared to Wednesday Addams.

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