As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � Flavia de Luce��part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket�s A Series of Unfortunate Events� (The New York Times Book Review)�takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in this captivating mystery. Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote�s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia�s first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a bedroom chimney. Now, while attending classes, making friends (and enemies), and assessing the school�s stern headmistress and faculty (one of whom is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victim�s identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means. Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycote�s is haunted, and that several girls have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the task�but her true destiny has yet to be revealed. Praise for As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust �Flavia de Luce [is] perhaps contemporary crime fiction�s most original character�to say she is Pippi Longstocking with a Ph.D. in chemistry (speciality: poisons) barely begins to describe her.��Maclean�s �Another treat for readers of all ages . . . [As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust] maintains the high standards Bradley set from the start.��Booklist �Exceptional . . . [The] intriguing setup only gets better, and Bradley makes Miss Bodycote�s a suitably Gothic setting for Flavia�s sleuthing. Through it all, her morbid narrative voice continues to charm.��Publishers Weekly (starred review) �Even after all these years, Flavia de Luce is still the world�s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.��The Seattle Times �Plot twists come faster than Canadian snowfall. . . . Bradley�s sense of observation is as keen as gung-ho scientist Flavia�s. . . . The results so far are seven sparkling Flavia de Luce mysteries.��Library Journal.… (more)