Goodreads Description:
1951 England village, a stranger warns narrator Flavia de Luce 11 for her father and a Gatekeeper, then is pushed under a train. Winston Churchill mysteriously asks about pheasant sandwiches. In her lab, she develops a film of her parents picnicking. Are the same words mouthed to the camera operator? At a funeral vigil, can chemist Flavia restore life?
This is the sixth offering Alan Bradley has given us is the freakin' delightful Flavia de Luce series. If you haven't heard of these books before, I'll give you a brief synopsis. Flavia de Luce is an 11 year old girl living in Bishop's Lacey in 1951 with her two older sisters and her father. She's incredibly intelligent and has an obsession with chemistry and poisons. Her mother has been missing since she was a toddler. Flavia manages to find her way in the middle of a number of murders in Bishop's Lacey over the course of the first five books and you're almost left wondering, "What the heck kind of town is this that this many murders happen in such a short time span??"
Now, I'm going to talk about some spoilers from the fifth book Speaking From Among the Bones. Beware!
Flavia's mother, Harriet's body was found at the end of Speaking From Among the Bones. When the coffin is arriving, a strange man approaches Flavia at the train station and tells her to deliver a cryptic message to her father. He then is pushed onto the train tracks and killed. The book sort of takes off from there. It's a really interesting book and it is going to take the series in an entirely new direction. It really HAS to. How many more murders could the meddling young genius solve before it started to become stale? I'm VERY excited to see what Mr. Bradley has in store for us.
The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches was an excellent read and for any Flavia fan, it won't disappoint.
It's release date will be January 14th, 2014.
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