PRAISE FOR ALAN BRADLEY'S FLAVIA DE LUCE SERIES

“Alan Bradley created one of the most memorable amateur sleuths of the twenty-first century. Flavia de Luce is a mere twelve years old when she first appears in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Almost terrifyingly precocious, Flavia loves chemistry, her father, and her buddy Digger, her father’s batman. Flavia doesn’t age much over the course of the ten books to date in the series, but she faces personal and familial trials that would bring many an adult to their knees and somehow comes out unbowed but wiser about human nature.” — CRIMEREADS

“Delightful…a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes.”  — THE BOSTON GLOBE

“[Flavia] is as addictive as dark chocolate.”  — DAILY MAIL

“Alan Bradley has created one of the most endearing protagonists the traditional mystery genre, typified by the works of Agatha Christie, has seen in a very long time … The book is beautifully written, with fully fleshed characters … The descriptions are vivid and lyrical … With this, his third novel in the Flavia de Luce series, Bradley, a Canadian who now lives in Malta, secures his position as a confident, talented writer and storyteller.”  — THE GLOBE AND MAIL

“Flavia de Luce is still the world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.”  — THE SEATTLE TIMES

“Take the precociousness of Harriet the Spy, the deductive reasoning skills of Sherlock Holmes and the chemistry prowess of Marie Curie and you’ll have Flavia de Luce, the adorable heroine of Alan Bradley’s mystery series. ”  — THE WILKES BARRE TIMES LEADER