Book Review-As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

Flavia is back in As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, the latest in the Flavia de Luce series, and this time she's in a girl's boarding school in Canada.  It is the school her mother, Harriet, attended, which is somewhat intimidating for Flavia, if one could say that Flavia could be intimidated.  No sooner does she arrive than a body is found...in her chimney!  As everyone else around her nearly panics, Flavia, ever the scientist, takes note of salient points about the body.  She does not expect to be able to share information with the Toronto police, as she does in her home village, so she finds different ways of ferreting out information.  Even out of her normal habitat, Flavia is Flavia, and the story is another fun adventure.  Read these in order to get the full effect!

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust By Bradley, Alan Author Bradley, C. Alan 2015-01 - Delacorte Press 9780345539939 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events"" ("The New York Times Book Review")--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from "New York Times "bestselling author Alan Bradley. "Banished " is how …More

Other books by the same author.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery By Bradley, Alan 2010-01 - Bantam 9780385343497 Check Our Catalog Awards: Agatha Awards (2009), Anthony Awards (2010), Dilys Award (2010), Macavity Award (2010), Young Reader's Choice Award (2012) It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. …More

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel By Bradley, Alan Author Bradley, C. Alan 2011-02 - Bantam 9780385343459 Check Our Catalog Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over--until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who'd do such a thing, and "why"? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet …More

A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel By Bradley, Alan 2011-10 - Bantam 9780385343466 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Alan Bradley, author of the most award-winning series debut of any year, returns with another irresistible Flavia de Luce novel In the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey, the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce had asked a Gypsy woman to tell her fortune--never expecting to later stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned almost to …More

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows By Bradley, Alan 2012-10 - Bantam 9780385344029 Check Our Catalog It's Christmastime, and Flavia de Luce--an 11-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry--is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie. …More

Speaking from Among the Bones: A Flavia de Luce Novel By Bradley, Alan 2013-01 - Delacorte Press 9780385344036 Check Our Catalog 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." HPL patron:  #5 and most recent of the Flavia de Luce novels.  Makes for good summer reading as they are engrossing, not hard and fun to read.  Do read …More

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches By Bradley, Alan 2014-01 - Delacorte Press 9780385344050 Check Our Catalog Poisoning prodigy Flavia de Luce's sixth brush with murder carries her back to the most consequential death of all: that of her long-missing mother, Harriet, whose returning corpse is promptly joined by another, fresher specimen. Harriet de Luce's three daughters have always been told that their mother vanished from the Himalayas back in 1941. Now her body has been recovered from a glacier after …More

Complimentary Reads

Not All Tarts Are Apple By Granger, Pip 2002-10 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781590580332 Check Our Catalog Awards: Agatha Awards (2002) A first novel serves up an inimitable slice of British life from Coronation Summer, 1953, in a city not much different than that familiar to Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist. Seven-year-old Rosie lives happily with Uncle Bert and pillow-plump Aunt Maggie above their cafe on Old Compton Street. The Soho neighborhood is rife with tough and sinewy London life including pimps and prostitutes, …More

The Spellman Files By Lutz, Lisa 2009-01 - Pocket Books 9781416594178 Check Our Catalog In her irresistible, laugh-out-loud debut novel, Lutz introduces Isabel Izzy Spellman, a 28-year-old private eye working for her family's investigative business--a family that puts the fun in dysfunctional. …More

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