Flavia de Luce · Book 5
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.
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