373 pages
English language
Published Dec. 24, 2009 by Delacorte Press.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
3 stars
(2 reviews)
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.
Subjects
- Detectives -- England -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction