The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

Its place in Flavia de Luce

The Grave's a Fine and Private Place is book 9 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd. It is followed by The Golden Tresses of the Dead. 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…