I Am Half-Sick of Shadows - Alan Bradley
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Book overview:
It's Christmastime, and
the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion
for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her
laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick.
But she is
soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces'
decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis
Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey
gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for
the evening's shocking conclusion: a body found, past midnight,
strangled to death with a length of film.
But who among the assembled
guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the
list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her
disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.
