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A Red Herring Without Mustard

Pages
416
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, a precocious chemist with a penchant for poisons, finds herself embroiled in a new series of mysteries in her English village. When a fortune-teller is found bludgeoned in her caravan, Flavia suspects a connection to a child who went missing years ago. As she investigates, another body appears, and Flavia must pedal her trusty bicycle across the countryside to untangle the dark deeds and uncover the truth behind the crimes, all while pondering a mystery about her own identity.

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How it reads

Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence