# Speaking from Among the Bones - Paperback

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by **Alan Bradley** (Author)

****NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER****

From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by _USA Today_ as "one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature."

Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries. What she is _not_ accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there's never such thing as an open-and-shut case.

**Acclaim for _Speaking from Among the Bones_**

"\[Alan\] Bradley scores another success. . . . This series is a grown-up version of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and all those mysteries you fell in love with as a child."**\--_The_ _San Diego Union-Tribune_**

"The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight."**\--_Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)**

"Fiendishly brilliant . . . Bradley has created an utterly charming cast of characters . . . as quirky as any British mystery fan could hope for."**\--Bookreporter**  
  
"Delightful and entertaining."**\--_San Jose Mercury News_**

**Acclaim for Alan Bradley's beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award**  
  
"Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate."**\--_USA Today_**

"Delightful."**_\--The Boston Globe_**_,_ on _The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie_

"Utterly beguiling."**\--_People_** (four stars), on _The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag_

"Irresistibly appealing."**_\--The New York Times Book Review_**_,_ on _A Red Herring Without Mustard_

### Author Biography

**Alan Bradley** is the _New York Times_ bestselling author of many short stories, children's stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir _The Shoebox Bible_. His first Flavia de Luce novel, _The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie,_ received the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce novels are _The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard_, _I Am Half-Sick of Shadows_, _Speaking from Among the Bones, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd,_ and _The Grave's a Fine and Private Place,_ as well as the ebook short story "The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse."

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** December 31, 2013

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Speaking from Among the Bones

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 6

**Point Value:** 14

## Details

- **Price:** 25.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Amateur Sleuth, Books, Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Thrillers

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