Speaking from Among the Bones
- Published
- 1 January 2012
- Pages
- 378
- ISBN-13
- 9781410455482
- Type
- novel
About this book
Following I Am Half-Sick of Shadows and preceding The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, Speaking from Among the Bones was published in 2012, continuing the slow-burn family mystery around Flavia's mother Harriet that runs beneath each book's case.
Key facts about Speaking from Among the Bones
Alan Bradley wrote Speaking from Among the Bones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2012. The book has 378 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781410455482 to find the main one.
Speaking from Among the Bones is book 5 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
Speaking from Among the Bones is book 5 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows I Am Half-Sick of Shadows. It is followed by The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches. 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 9780385344036
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9788377311882
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409114239