The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

There were so many things about the first Flavia De Luce book that delighted me – Flavia is a precocious girl in 50s English countryside in a rundown estate. She describes finding a dead man in the cucumber patch as “the most exciting thing that had ever happened” to her. What's not to love.

Towards the end of the novel though, I felt that the conclusion was a touch unsatisfactory. Not bad, just a little underwhelming. I do plan on reading the next books in the series so I wasn't wholly disappointed but I felt it ended with a bit of a fizzle rather than with the same crisp, bubbly pop that it started.