The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

A Flavia de Luce Novel

By: Alan Bradley

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

"The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Alan Bradley.

In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, 12-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.

©2018 Alan Bradley (P)2018 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"If ever there were a sleuth who's bold, brilliant, and, yes, adorable, it's Flavia de Luce." (USA Today)

"Delightful...a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes." (The Boston Globe)

"Longtime series narrator Entwistle knows her characters and deploys their divergent personalities to excellent effect. She also nicely colors other parts, from village undertaker to grand dame, and aces multicharacter conversations. Flavia fans will be delighted." (AudioFile)

Delightful

Delightful. And the reader is fantastic! Well worth it including the entire series. Love the character and the writing

Another wonderful visit with the fabulous Flavia

This is such a unique and delicious series. The performance by Jane Entwistle captures Flavia's brilliance and quirks while still making you believe that she's a young girl. One of those times when the audio book adds extra layers to the writing.

The Grave's Fine and Private Place

I thoroughly enjoyed book as I have all of the books in the Flavi DeLuxe series and am looking forward to another. Jayne Entwistle does a great job.

The best in the series

Really outstanding. A wonderful story made even more rich and interesting with the telling. Very much looking forward to what to comes next.

The best

Alan Bradley,s books are great. The performance/reading brings the stories greater understanding of the wit

Well begun is well done!

This episode in the life of Flavia de Luce is my very favorite, and I’ve listened to all of them. Flavia is fully and lovingly revealed as she comes into her own!
A great mystery, interesting characters, some new and some old friends.
Even though this is the last installment, it feels as if this stage is set with all the actors present and a great deal of entertainment ahead. Like Mrs. Mullet, I’ll miss her!

True magic!!

One of my top 3 series of all time. ​Very w​ell written from the wonderful characters to the ​engagingly ​faceted plot, ​this book as well as ​the ​entire​ series is just perfect!​ ​I am jealous that ​as of 1/22/19 one can binge read this series (books 1-10)! I read them as they came out and had to wait a year (sometimes even longer) to ​read the next installment. ​For me, this is as good as it gets!

Bravo Alan Bradley !!!

This book is yet another of this series which I'll read over & over again!!

Oh, Flavia, you've done it again.

Follow Flavia as she finds a body, hunts a killer, and is hunted by the killer. Another thrill a minute mystery with the master chemist, Flavia De Luce.

I love this series! No one like Flavia!

THis series about a precocious little girl is like catnip for cats: irresistible. The previous book was sad,
the death of a major character made me wonder how this would affect the future, but Flavia, with all her
annoying habits and all her endearing characteristics survives! The character gap fills out nicely,
and the plot unfolds... the ending of course comes to a heart-pounding crisis, but all is well.
I'm grieving the end of this series, as there is but one book to go... So I'll put a bit of distance between
me and Flavia... and pray for the author to give us more volumes.