Alan Bradley - Flavia de Luce 01 - The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie
Read by: Jayne Entwistle
Unabridged: Yes
Audio: MP3, 2-channel, 128 Kbps @ 48000 Hz, CBR
Runtime: 18h approx.
It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia -- when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is -- has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past.
Flavia and her family are brilliant creations, a darkly playful and wonderfully atmospheric flavour to a plot of delightful ingenuity.
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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