“Impressive as a sleuth and enchanting as a mad scientist. Flavia is most endearing as a little girl who has learned how to amuse herself in a big lonely house.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“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, Edgar, Macavity, and Nero award-winning author of the Mary Russell series.