Flavia de Luce is an eleven year old girl who loves chemistry, particularly poisons.
When she discovers a murdered stranger in the backyard of her family’s English mansion she welcomes the chance to solve the mystery.
She manages to do a much better job of it than the local police.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is only the first in a series of Flavia mysteries that keep getting better.
The adventures continue in
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag,
A Red Herring Without Mustard, and the just-published
I Am Half Sick of Shadows.
