03618cam a2200325 4500 1133803211 TxAuBib 20240131120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780449807729 044980772X 41133fe9-177f-439b-8bb7-a5115744183c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3272788 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bradley, Alan. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place [Libby] : A Flavia de Luce Novel. Books on Tape, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 269MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 269MB. Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • “The world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth” (<i>The Seattle Times</i>), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley.</b><br /> In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia’s grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia’s mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder—although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.<br /> <b>Praise for <i>The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place</i></b><br /> “Flavia [is] irrepressible, precocious and indefatigable. . . . A whole new chapter of Flavia’s life opens as she approaches adolescence. Will she become the Madame Curie of crime?”<b>—<i>Bookreporter</i></b><br /> “Outstanding . . . As usual, Bradley makes his improbable series conceit work and relieves the plot’s inherent darkness with clever humor.”<b>—<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><br /> &#160;<br /> “There’s only one Flavia. . . . Series fans will anticipate the details of this investigation, along with one last taste of Flavia’s unorthodox family life.”<b>—<i>Library Journal</i> (starred review)</b><br /> &#160;<br /> “Bradley’s unquenchable heroine brings ‘the most complicated case I had ever come across’ to a highly satisfying conclusion, with the promise of still brighter days ahead.”<b>—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-01-31 20:00:03. Entwistle, Jayne. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/3272788-TheGrave'sAFineAndPrivatePlace.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=41133fe9-177f-439b-8bb7-a5115744183c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/3272788-TheGrave'sAFineAndPrivatePlace.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=41133fe9-177f-439b-8bb7-a5115744183c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)