Speaking from Among the Bones

From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce. hailed by USA Today as one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues. whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries . What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death. the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia. yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks:... the body of Mr Collicutt. the church organi...

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 novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Winn Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce novels are The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, and I Am Half-Sick of Shadows.