The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

A delightfully dark and original period crime novel featuring an irresistible young sleuth and her eccentric family.

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.

About the Author

Alan Bradley is a retired Director of Television Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, where he lectured on screen writing. He is the author of the memoir, The Shoebox Bible, as well as the acclaimed Flavia de Luce mysteries.

Previous Books:
I am Half-Sick of Shadows (TPB 9781409114215 Nov 11);
A Red Herring Without Mustard;
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag;
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Other titles by Alan Bradley

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