When Flavia, her sisters, and Dogger arrive at a village, Flavia finds a dead body, wearing a theatrical costume, in the river. He and Flavia have always been close and, in a way, he has been a better father to Flavia than her own father, who was always emotionally distant. Dogger has been traumatized by his experiences in a World War II prisoner of war camp, and experiences flashbacks. After their father's death, Flavia and her two obnoxious older sisters, Feely (Ophelia) and Daffy (Daphne), go on a boating trip with Dogger, the family's faithful servant. Flavia frequently uses her knowledge of poisons to solve crimes. “Bradley’s unquenchable heroine brings ‘the most complicated case I had ever come across’ to a highly satisfying conclusion, with the promise of still brighter days ahead.The Grave's a Fine and Private Place is the ninth book in Alan Bradley's popular mystery series featuring Flavia de Luce, a twelve-year-old chemistry genius, in the rural England of the 1950s. “Bradley’s unquenchable heroine brings ‘the most complicated case I had ever come across’ to a highly satisfying conclusion, with the promise of still brighter days ahead.” - Kirkus Reviews Series fans will anticipate the details of this investigation, along with one last taste of Flavia’s unorthodox family life.” - Library Journal (starred review) As usual, Bradley makes his improbable series conceit work and relieves the plot’s inherent darkness with clever humor.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Will she become the Madame Curie of crime?” - Bookreporter A whole new chapter of Flavia’s life opens as she approaches adolescence. “Flavia irrepressible, precocious and indefatigable. Praise for The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place 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. But in Flavia’s grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish.
Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water.
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. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. “The world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth” ( The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley.
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