I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

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…