The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie ist ein Kriminalroman, die Hauptfigur (sozusagen die ermittelnde Detektivin) ein elfjähriges Mädchen namens Flavia. Im Großen und Ganzen war das Buch spannend, gut geschrieben und nett zu lesen. Stellenweise hat es mich sogar ein bisschen gefesselt. Leider wa...
Flavia de Luce is a precocious 11 year old. She's a chemist, a sleuth, a tormentor of siblings. She and her sisters, Ophelia and Daphne, live with their father in Buckshaw, an English country mansion which has seen better days. Shades of I Capture the Castle? Perhaps. But Flavia has her own dis...
I got this because Becca recommended it, and I needed something non-taxing after Murakami (who is awesome, but sometimes requires additional contemplation). So, this was a book about an 11-year old girl who lives in a British manor house in 1950, who has a chemistry lab in an upper room of the mano...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is the first book in the Flavia de Luce Mystery series. A good friend of mine, whose taste in books I share, has been recommending the Flavia books to me for a while. I finally purchased a copy and gave it a try.Oh, Flavia. What a character! I love her wit, her...
Lot's of fun, an English Manor mystery set in the early '50s, with a precocious 11 year old heroine, Flavia. Flavia is an autodidact chemist, and an amateur sleuth, who solves a contemporary murder mystery and a 20 year old murder at once, with remarkable audacity, saving the day at the end.
Flavia is precocious, but her character is so much fun. She is the little detective I DREAMED of being as a kid. I was obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, as much or more as Flavia so this story clicked in to my childhood fantasy of solving crimes through logic and evidence-examining. And as an added bon...
It was enjoyable, but... I don't know. First of all, I wasn't really sure what I was getting into; I didn't know it was a mystery (silly me, right? But I like to know as little as possible about fiction before I start it. I generally don't read dust jacket descriptions and usually pick books based o...
I liked it, which should be considered the highest honor for a mystery since I'm not a huge mystery girl. Now onto the 2nd mystery I have to read for class. *Le sigh...*
Review also appears on my blog At the End of the StoryNancy Drew- the quintessential girl sleuth? Not anymore. That place has now been claimed Flavia de Luce(oh, well since 2009) "an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison along with her loyal companion, Gladys- a proficient vehicle that is easy ...
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