The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches : A Flavia de Luce Novel

from fyrefly98

Summary: Almost-twelve-year-old chemist and occasional poisoner Flavia de Luce has seen a lot of bodies in the past year, but this one is different. Flavia's mother, Harriet, has been missing since Flavia was just a baby, but her body has finally been recovered, from where it was frozen in a glac...

from quiBee

The fifth book in the Flavia de Luce series.Flavia is nearly 12 years old now, her mother's body has just been found and is returned home.Flavia has to process what this means and her family is in complete disarray. There is a murder, but it almost seems to be a side issue compared what her mothe...

from 68papyrus

As this latest Flavia de Luce novel begins, Flavia's family is at the train depot awaiting the return of Harriet's body on the funeral train. This volume has a much more somber feel to it than previous installments. Harriet's return has brought to the surface all the grief, anger and uncertainty ...

from lostinalibrary

Harriet de Luce, Flavia de Luce's mother, is coming home. The family, along with friends including no less a personage than Winston Churchill himself, are at the train station to witness her arrival. A stranger accosts Flavia with a strange message for her father, 'the Gamekeeper is in jeopardy'....

from rvhatha

I have thoroughly enjoyed the Flavia De Luce series--there's no more endearing 11-year-old girl detective on the planet. What delights me the most is the sly way Alan Bradley has of indicating that Flavia is perhaps not as indomitable as she'd like to be. Over the course of the last two or three ...