Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I thoroughly enjoyed my introduction to Flavia de Luce. Flavia is a precocious and not terribly sweet 11-year-old and I thought she was perfect. She lives in a small town, without a mother, at the end of the second world war, which makes it the prime conditions for this clever sleuth to clear her father of murder and solve a decades old mystery to boot. More than a simple mystery, Bradley also contemplates silence. What it means, or doesn't and how silence can be as damning as action. Loved it.

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