The sweetness at the bottom of the pie

By Alan Bradley

Subjects: Motherless families, Detectives, Fiction, Sisters, Flavia De Luce (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories

Description: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.