Speaking from Among the Bones

What's to be said about this book that I haven't said about the others? Flavia's her typical charming, precocious, incorrigible self. Perhaps a bit more clever than we've seen her before, definitely with less a sense of self-preservation than we've seen previously. Her sisters are a bit, more human? Or maybe Flavia's portraying them more honestly/more sympathetically. The financial pressures her father's under are more and more pressing, causing everyone to be a bit more realistic, it seems.

Still, that doesn't deter Flavia from doing her thing when a body is discovered. It's everything you want in a Flavia de Luce novel – very, very smart conclusion to this mystery.