Alan Bradley
By the Author
What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust
'Cosy mystery fans will love this latest delightful installment!' NITA PROSE, bestselling author of THE MAID Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin,…
Buy the Book
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
Flavia de Luce, the twelve-year-old chemist and amateur detective is eager to turn professional. She and her father's valet, Dogger, have founded a detective agency,…
Buy the Book
The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place
Sunny skies, sleep water...and a sinister corpse Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family. Languishing in…
Buy the Book
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d
'The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite.' Mail on Sunday CURIOUSITY WON'T KILL THIS CAT... Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at…
Buy the Book
As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust
It all began with that awful business about my mother... Flavia de Luce's world is turned upside down when she is banished to Miss Bodycote's…
Buy the Book
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
Even ghosts have secrets... Two deaths, ten years apart, give Flavia de Luce the distraction she needs at a time when her family are more…
Buy the Book
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse
A special eBook original short story, in which the eleven-year-old connoisseur of chemistry is immersed in her element: solving a mystery! Murder! the letter says,…
Buy the Book
Speaking from Among the Bones
An ancient tomb...a very modern murder When the tomb of St Tancred is opened, no one expects to find the body of the organist, lying…
Buy the Book
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
In the deep midwinter, there's a murder to solve... Christmas is coming and the snow is falling, but with the de Luce family finances in…
Buy the Book
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
Pigtails, poisons and murder-most-foul A travelling puppet show arrives in the sleepy village of Bishop's Lacey - and a shocking murder takes place. For eleven-year-old…
Buy the Book
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Meet Flavia: Mystery Solver. Master Poisoner. 11 Years Old. England 1950. At Buckshaw, the crumbling country seat of the de Luce family, very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia is…
Buy the Book
A Red Herring Without Mustard
Welcome to Bishop's Lacey. A murder every country mile For eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, a visit to a Gypsy fortune-teller is just a bit of…