I blogged earlier in the year about The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first Flavia de Luce mystery. This book finds the resiliant young Flavia recovered from her earlier adventures and misadventures, raring for another mystery to solve. Puppeteer Rupert Porson obliges her by getting himself murdered at one of his shows. Once again Flavia, amateur chemist and sleuth extraordinaire, sees it as her duty to outwit the police and find the murderer on her own. Which, of course, she does.Flavia comes across a number of dubious characters, including her older sisters who mercilessly bully her, her sisters' swains, a former prisoner of war, the other woman, the pastor, and the pastor's wife. There's also, of course, the token madwoman. Actually, two of them. Flavia is wise beyond her years, occasionally annoyingly so, but endearing all the same. This is definitely a book worth reading.
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