English language
Published Dec. 7, 2012 by Delacorte Press.
Eleven-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. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. 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 Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s never such thing as an open-and-shut case.
Liked it better than #4, - plenty of action and suspense.
Wouldn't it figure that the last one of these published, to date, is the one that ends with a bombshell? Seriously, folks, NOT COOL. Flavia is such a refreshing character. I can't get enough of her voice. The mystery part of this series is a little silly, but I love Flavia!
Flavia, the sleuth in this detective novel, is a precocious twelve years old obsessed with chemistry and especially with poisons. She also enjoys solving crimes, especially murders. When a church organist in a small English village where Flavia lives with her father and her two sisters was found murdered in a church Flavia pretty much had to find out who did it.
Amusing, witty, well written and generally fun to read novel.
