"Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate."-"USA Today" And what she unearths will prove there's never such thing as an open-and-shut case.Īcclaim for Alan Bradley's beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. What she is "not" accustomed to is digging up bodies. 35.From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by "USA Today" as "one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature."Įleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries. The mystery leads Flavia deep into the past, to a strange story of lost manuscripts and ancient relics. 9781409118183 Speaking from Among the Bones 35.3000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction/crime-thrillers /shop/books/fiction /shop/books The first thing I saw was a hand, and then the face, a ghastly inhuman mask. Why would anyone want to kill the much-admired organist in such a brutal and bizarre fashion? Why place his body in the tomb? And what happened to the remains of the previous occupant? The first thing I saw was a hand, and then the face, a ghastly inhuman mask.Įleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is intrigued. Why would anyone want to kill the much-admired organist in such a brutal and bizarre fashion? Why place his body in the tomb? And what hap. When the tomb of St Tancred is opened, no one expects to find the body of the organist, lying in a pool of blood, his handsome features covered by a gas mask.Įleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is intrigued. 'I do believe we've found Mr Collicutt,' I said. The first thing I saw was a hand, and then the face, a ghastly inhuman mask.
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