The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

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This book was SO. MUCH. FUN!!! It is to be a series, and I look forward to getting my hands on the next installment.

The heroine of the novel is Flavia de Luce. She's eleven years old and has an odd fascination with chemistry, poisons in particular. She finds a dead man in the garden and decides to deduce for herself what happened.

The book is chock-full of references to other works of literature, films, and music. It really pulls you back in time (the book is set in the 1950s)and away to the English countryside.

I can't wait until Flavia's next adventure! It won't come out until next year, though, so...what next? :-)