The Grave's a Fine and Private Place - The Library of the Uncommons

debby_joyblue reviewed The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley

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3 stars

3+/4-

debby_joyblue@bookrastinating.com reviewed The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley

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3 stars

3+/4-

Christina reviewed The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley

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4 stars

I enjoyed this, I've read all of the published Flavia de Luce mysteries and this is in the top four. Flavia's growing more skillful in manipulation and charm, relations with her bookish sister Daphne are less abrasive. The title in my head is "Three Women in a Boat (To Say Nothing About the Dogger)" but it's not a Jerome K. Jerome knee-slapper.

Six months after the death of their father, the de Luce daughters with Arthur Dogger take a punt on a summer holiday, in the interregnum between George VI and Elizabeth II. Flavia happens upon a body in the water, and soon her gloom and despair evaporate as she and Dogger set to improvised chemical experiments and investigations and Flavia practices some tact and extemporization.

Unrelated to the novel, am I the last one to learn that the late Bill Bryson was Alan Bradley's cousin?