Mystery Book Discussion Group
Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Dec 21, 2010 Main Library, Conference Room
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce has a passion for poisons. This turns out to be a good thing for her father, the widowed Colonel de Luce, after he is accused of murder. Flavia is the only member of her eccentric family who ever uses the long-abandoned Victorian chemistry laboratory in their ancient country house, and she is determined to discover who is really responsible for the corpse in the cucumber patch. This first mystery has deservedly won a number of awards, including the Agatha, the Dilys and the CWA Debut Dagger.