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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, Bk 1)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Flavia de Luce, Bk 1 Author:Alan Bradley 'The eyes, as blue as the birds in the Willow pattern, looked up into mine as if staring out from a dim and smoky past... and then they died.' — England, 1950. At Buckshaw, the crumbling country seat of the de Luce family, very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia is plotting revenge on her older sisters. Then a dead bird is left o... more »n the doorstep, which has an extraordinary effect on Flavia's eccentric father, and a body is found in the garden. As the police descend on Buckshaw, Flavia decides to do some investigating of her own...« less