Alan Bradley is the internationally bestselling author of many short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. His first Flavia de Luce mystery, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, and the Agatha Award, and was nominated for the Macavity, the Anthony, and the Barry awards. His second Flavia de Luce mystery is The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag. Bradley lives in Malta with his wife and two calculating cats, and is currently at work on the next Flavia de Luce mystery, I Am Half Sick of Shadows.
"While Flavia De Luce is winning your heart, she may also be
poisoning your tea. She's the most wickedly funny sleuth in years,
brilliant, unpredictable, unflappable—and only eleven. The
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie offers the freshest new voice in
mystery yet."—Charles Todd, author of The Ian Rutledge series
"A wickedly clever story, a dead true and original voice, and an
English country house in the summer: Alexander McCall Smith meets
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Please, please, Mr. Bradley, tell me we'll
be seeing Flavia again soon?"—Laurie R. King, author of the Mary
Russell series
“Alan Bradley’s marvelous book, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the
Pie, is a fantastic read, a winner. Flavia walks right off the page
and follows me through my day. I can hardly wait for the next book.
Bravo!”—Louise Penny, author of Still Life
"Alan Bradley brews a bubbly beaker of fun in his devilishly
clever, wickedly amusing debut mystery, launching an
eleven-year-old heroine with a passion for chemistry–and revenge!
What a delightful, original book!"—Carolyn Hart, author of the
Death on Demand series
“Utterly charming! Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce proves to be one
of the most precocious, resourceful, and well, just plain
dangerous, heroines around. Evildoers–and big sisters–beware!”—Lisa
Gardner, author of Say Goodbye
"Flavia is an engagingly smart new sleuth with a flair for bringing
out the child–and the detective–in all of us."—Christopher Fowler,
author of the Peculiar Crimes Unit series
“At once precocious and endearing, Flavia is a marvelous character.
Quirkily appealing, this is definitely a crime novel with a
difference.” –Choice Magazine, “Book of the Month.”
“Brilliant, irresistible and incorrigible, Flavia has a long future
ahead of her…Bradley’s mystery debut is a standout.“—Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)
“Fun for the reader . . . Fans of Louise Fitzhugh's iconic Harriet
the Spy will welcome 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce, the heroine
of . . . Bradley's rollicking debut.”—Publishers Weekly
“A delightful whodunit.…hilarious, eccentric and
mischievous.”—Tangled Web, UK
“Oh how astonishing and pleasing is genuine originality! . . . This
is a book which triumphantly succeeds in its objectives of charming
and delighting. And on top of that it is genuinely original . . .
we may well be talking in a few years about one of the great voices
and great series of mystery fiction. I resort to—and it is very,
very rarely that I use this—that old cliché, a
must-read.”—Reviewing the Evidence
“A wonderfully written, engaging novel….It’s rare that a book of
which I feel quite passionately enraptured crosses my desk, and
this is one of those special books that fully deserves five stars.
The plot is well-paced, the dialogue is thoughtful and succinct,
and being inside the head of Flavia de Luce is delightful. Her wry,
dry humour and resigned frustration with the adult world are
seriously entertaining….I loved her to bits.”—Oh Baby Magazine,
NZ
“Delightfully entertaining.”—The Guardian, UK
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