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The grave's a fine and private place / Alan Bradley.

by Bradley, C. Alan, 1938-

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Thorndike Press, 2018.

Girls -- Fiction.

Motherless families -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

England -- Fiction.

Bradley, C. Alan, 1938- Flavia de Luce novels ; 9.

Large print ed.

457 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

"In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes against her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself as Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder—although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave."--From publisher.

Mystery fiction.

Amateur sleuth mystery.

Canadian fiction.

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