Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 7/5/2018 + 1032 more book reviews

Flavia continues to be entertaining - a precocious intellect but still mostly a child's emotions. I think her relationship with her sisters is alternately funny and terrifying; she loves them, but all those poison revenge plots could go really wrong. She's at her deductive best in this book I think, bicycling around town on Gladys and ultimately lost in the underground tunnels of Buckshaw. I love her crush on Inspector Hewitt's wife, who was briefly introduced in the last book. There are more clues to the murder this time, I think, although it still caught me by surprise. Probably easy enough for a new reader to start here, although I think the flavor would be better by starting with the first in the series.

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