The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950, inexplicable events strike Buckshaw, her decaying mansion home. A dead bird is on the doorstep, a postage stamp on its beak.

Hours later, Flavia finds a man dying in the cucumber patch. His last words must save her father imprisoned for his murder.