And if you’re not yet a Flavia de Luce fan, here’s how to become one. It starts with this book.
It continues on with these:
Then just when you think you know all there is to know about Flavia, out comes another great mystery by Alan Bradley in this excellent series.
On Goodreads: 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 a thing as an open-and-shut case.
It’s a mystery to me why these mysteries are so appealing to a non mystery lover such as I have always been. Although I suppose when I consider how much I’ve grown to love Flavia, it’s not such a great mystery after all. I read this latest addition to the series yesterday, and it was like sitting down to have a long friendly chat with an old friend. Except that Flavia is barely twelve at this point.
The last line in this book (an eye rolling, teasing groaner of a sentence if there ever was one) has to be a promise that there is more Flavia to come. So while we’re waiting for that, there’s time for you to read this delightful series (or re-read it, it’s that good) and get ready for the rest of the story.
Breathing Space 
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