The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

from Marensr

I found this book at a little independent bookseller close to my work and I am glad I did. It is a great little mystery set in 1950s England. The detective is Flavia de Luce the third daughter of minor nobility living in a crumbling manor house with her two older sisters (both gifted in their own...

from MrJack

This is a review of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (2009) by Alan Bradley. Rather than read the book, I listened to the Audiobook edition narrated by Jayne Entwistle borrowed from the Knoxville Public Library. Once upon a time, it was 1950 to be more accurate, there was an intelligent lit...

from loosha

Alleykat and twink have written excellent reviews and I have really nothing to add, except this information.... Along with several of my book club friends, we met the author at the Bohemian Bagel Cafe last week. (Of course, we all bought the book.) What an interesting story. The author, Alan Brad...

from richardderus

This delight is a debut mystery! A debut mystery, if you please, and a Crime Writers of America Dagger Award winner, and written by a Saskatooni writer, and just flat funny. Whatever they do to the water in Saskatoon, they should do it to some Murrikin cities that're famous for nothing (eg, Dubuq...

from lit_chick

Precocious eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce lives at Buckshaw, her family's ancestral Victorian manor, in the sleepy English village of Bishop's Lacey. Flavia is mostly left to her own devices by her father and two older sisters who are preoccupied with their own interests: stamp collecting, romanc...