I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 287
- ISBN-13
- 9780385668118
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 2011, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows is part of Flavia de Luce, credited to Alan Bradley. At 287 pages, it is the shortest of the books covered here.
Key facts about I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows is a novel by Alan Bradley. Readers have had it since 2011. It runs to 287 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of I Am Half-Sick of Shadows. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780385668118 to find the main one.
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows is book 4 of 11 in the Flavia de Luce series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (2009).
That series sits on our cozy mystery shelf. Meanwhile, What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust is the latest published Alan Bradley book on file, from 2024.
About Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley is a Canadian author best known for the Flavia de Luce series, a run of cozy mysteries set in 1950s England and narrated by an eleven-year-old chemistry prodigy with a taste for poisons and a habit of solving murders faster than the local police. See every Alan Bradley book in order.
Its place in Flavia de Luce
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows is book 4 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows A Red Herring Without Mustard. It is followed by Speaking from Among the Bones. See the full Flavia de Luce reading order.
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce lives in a crumbling English country pile called Buckshaw with her distant father, two spiteful older sisters, and a Victorian chemistry laboratory she has claimed as her own private kingdom. She is obsessed with poisons — their properties, their history, their delivery — and it is only a matter of time before a body turns up on the cucumber patch for her to apply that knowledge to. Set in the placid English village of Bishop's Lacey in the early 1950s, each novel drops a corpse…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385344029
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409118176
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385668118