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It’s Christmastime, and Flavia de Luce—an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry—is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at (More) Buckshaw, the de Luces’ decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop’s Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the evening’s shocking conclusion: a body found strangled to death with a length of film. But who among the assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.

Inglaterra, 1950. Flavia de Luce tiene once años y tres pasiones: los venenos, molestar a sus hermanas mayores y resolver misterios. Hace un tiempo ayudó a la policía con un asesinato, pero desde entonces su único consuelo son los (More) experimentos que realiza en su laboratorio, ubicado en un ala deshabilitada de la mansión en la que vive con su excéntrica familia. Así pues, cuando aparece una furgoneta anunciando un espectáculo de títeres, Flavia es la primera en meter la nariz en el asunto. El día de la función, aunque el lleno total hace prever un gran éxito, un trágico accidente lo enturbia todo. Aunque… ¿Seguro que se trata de un accidente? Sin perder un segundo Flavia se monta en Gladis, su fiel bicicleta, y pedalea a la caza de las pistas que le permitan resolver este nuevo enigma. ¿Popdrá una niña enfrentarse sola a los peligros que le acechan en el camino hacia la verdad?
En La muerte no es cosa de niños, Alan Bradley, uno de los genios de la narrativa detectivesca, vuelve a sumergirnos en una ingeniosa y apasionante historia de misterio de la mano de la investigadora más singular, sarcástica e inolvidable del panorama narrativo actual.

Imagínese una vieja casa de campo en algún lugar de Inglaterra. El año es 1950. Imagínese una niña que vive allí con una familia poco común. Se llama Flavia de Luce y tiene casi once años. Imagínese un laboratorio químico (More) victoriano abandonado décadas atrás; nadie entra allí excepto Flavia.
Con una vida en casa de lo más amarga y una complicada relación con sus hermanas, Flavia de Luce es una niña solitaria y de extraños talentos que juguetea en el laboratorio abandonado de su casa victoriana. Allí hurga en el pasado prohibido de su taciturno padre viudo, como si fuera un detective, y planea su venganza contra sus hermanas Ophelia y Daphne. En este marco no sorprende que el material para su próximo experimento científico sea el misterioso cuerpo que encuentra enterrado en su jardín. Siguiendo a su inteligente protagonista, Flavia de los extraños talentos es un libro absolutamente original, imaginativo, rápido de leer, que engancha por su inteligencia y por su humor, a veces muy negro, que se burla de la macabra seriedad de la trama. El autor escoge un marco fascinante como lo es la Inglaterra de 1950, y allí retrata la excéntrica cotidianidad de una familia cuyos miembros despiertan un inusual interés en el lector.Ganadora del prestigioso Debut Dagger Award, Flavia de los extraños talentos es una novela sorprendente, original, imaginativa, absorbente, inteligente y divertida, con una protagonista carismática y muy especial. Prepárate para conocer a Flavia: no la olvidarás jamás.

Alan Bradley, author of the most award-winning series debut of any year, returns with another irresistible Flavia de Luce novel.
In the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey, the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia (More) de Luce had asked a Gypsy woman to tell her fortune—never expecting to later stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned almost to death in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge is a delightful pastime when one has two odious older sisters. But how could this crime be connected to the missing baby? As the red herrings pile up, Flavia must sort through clues fishy and foul to untangle dark deeds and dangerous secrets.

From Dagger Award–winning and internationally best-selling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a (More) passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over—and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.
Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a mystery by Alan Bradley published in 2009. Set in the English countryside in 1950, it features Flavia de Luce, an 11-year-old amateur sleuth who pulls herself away from her beloved (More) chemistry lab in order to clear her father in a murder investigation. First-time novelist, Bradley, wrote the book after winning the 2007 Debut Dagger Award and selling the publishing rights in 3 countries based on the first chapter and a synopsis. Well received by critics as an old-fashioned mystery featuring an unforgettable protagonist, the novel has won multiple awards and is the first in a proposed 10-book series.
As the novel opens, Flavia Sabina de Luce schemes revenge against her 2 older sisters, Ophelia (17) and Daphne (13) who have locked her inside a closet in Buckshaw, the family’s country manor home located in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey. Flavia may have braces and pigtails like a typical 11-year-old girl, but she is also a brilliant amateur chemist with a speciality in poisons and a fully equipped, personal laboratory on the top floor of her home.