As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust: A Flavia de Luce Novel

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust: A Flavia de Luce Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Flavia de Luceâ€”â€œpart Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicketâ€™s A Series of Unfortunate Eventsâ€ (The New York Times Book Review)â€”takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley.

Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycoteâ€™s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flaviaâ€™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 schoolâ€™s stern headmistress and faculty (one of whom is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victimâ€™s identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means. Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycoteâ€™s is haunted, and that several girls have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the taskâ€”but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.

Praise for As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
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â€œFlavia de Luce [is] perhaps contemporary crime fictionâ€™s most original characterâ€”to say she is Pippi Longstocking with a Ph.D. in chemistry (speciality: poisons) barely begins to describe her.â€â€”Macleanâ€™s
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â€œAnother treat for readers of all ages . . . [As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust] maintains the high standards Bradley set from the start.â€â€”Booklist
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â€œExceptional . . . [The] intriguing setup only gets better, and Bradley makes Miss Bodycoteâ€™s a suitably Gothic setting for Flaviaâ€™s sleuthing. Through it all, her morbid narrative voice continues to charm.â€â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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â€œEven after all these years, Flavia de Luce is still the worldâ€™s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.â€â€”The Seattle Times
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â€œPlot twists come faster than Canadian snowfall. . . . Bradleyâ€™s sense of observation is as keen as gung-ho scientist Flaviaâ€™s. . . . The results so far are seven sparkling Flavia de Luce mysteries.â€â€”Library Journal
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â€œA rattling good â€˜girlsâ€™ own adventureâ€™ yarn with an extensive cast of characters and suspects . . . When all is revealed, the links, misunderstandings and secrecy have a satisfying click.â€â€”Winnipeg Free Press
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â€œA delightful installment in the series!â€â€”LibraryReads
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Acclaim for Alan Bradleyâ€™s beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writersâ€™ Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award
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â€œIf ever there were a sleuth whoâ€™s bold, brilliant, and, yes, adorable, itâ€™s Flavia de Luce.â€â€”USA Today
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â€œThis idiosyncratic young heroine continues to charm.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal
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â€œDelightful . . . a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes.â€â€”The Boston Globe

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House Audio
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2015-01-06
UnitCount 9
Format Audiobook
EANs 9780449807613

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2015-01-06
UnitCount	9
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9780449807613

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust: A Flavia de Luce Novel

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