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Carrie Jade is a chilling true-crime account of Samantha Cookes, a master manipulator who spent more than a decade reinventing herself across the UK and Ireland with an arsenal of false identities. From au pair and nanny to therapist, teacher, psychologist, even terminally ill author and...

Un triste Natale si profila per l'undicenne Flavia de Luce e nemmeno gli amati esperimenti di chimica, da un po' di tempo tendenti irresistibilmente a sintetizzare veleni, riescono a consolarla. La tenuta di Buckshaw, con il parco innevato e la magione sterminata, dovrà ospitare un'intera troupe cinematografica per girare un film ambientato in una tipica casa nobiliare di campagna inglese. L'invasione si rivela meno noiosa del previsto.

Flavia de Luce, the twelve-year-old chemist and amateur detective is eager to turn professional. She and her father's valet, Dogger, have founded a detective agency, Arthur Dogger & Associates, and unexpectedly cut into their first case during the revelry at her sister Ophelia's wedding...

'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' For Flavia de Luce, the old gypsy's words open up old wounds and new possibilities. Is she a faker, or is there some truth to her powers? And when the village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how...

Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father's illness. Forbidden from visiting him in hospital, Flavia busies herself in the village, but she soon makes a macabre discovery: the corpse of a reclusive woodcarver, in an empty...

Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family. Languishing in boredom, she drags a slack hand in the water, and catches her fingers in the open mouth of a drowned corpse. Flavia needs to put her super-sleuthing skills to the test to...

When Flavia de Luce is banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada she’s soon on familiar ground, when, on her first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. Girls have been disappearing with alarming regularity...

The absence of Flavia DeLuce’s mother, Harriet, has always cast a shadow, since her presumed death in a mountaineering accident in Tibet. Now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet's return...

The villagers of Bishop’s Lacey are holding their collective breath as St Tancred’s tomb in the local church is about to be opened after five hundred years. Inveterate eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce is first at the scene, but the body she finds lying there is not that of a desiccated...

When a mysterious puppet show arrives in Bishop's Lacey, death is not far behind... a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall reaches back to an earlier crime that has cast a shadow over the village for years. Flavia's investigations test her powers of...

All is not well at Buckshaw, home of Flavia de Luce... With the family finances in a parlous state, Flavia's father has rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. When a heavy snowfall cuts the village off, the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish...

Un banale guasto al furgone costringe il più grande burattinaio inglese, Rupert Porson a fermarsi per qualche giorno a Bishop's Lacey, l'immaginario paesino inglese negli anni Cinquanta scenario delle avventure di Flavia de Luce. Quale migliore occasione per uno spettacolo di marionette? Ma mentre «Il fagiolo magico» sta per concludersi fra gli entusiasmi del pubblico, ecco abbattersi sulla scena proprio Rupert, ucciso da una scossa elettrica e non si tratta di un incidente ma di un vero e proprio omicidio.

Eine Leiche im Garten, eine charmante junge Hobbydetektivin und ein finsteres Geheimnis – Band 1 der Reihe und die Romanvorlage für den Kinohit »Flavia« Die junge Flavia de Luce staunt nicht schlecht, als sie im ersten Morgenlicht das Opfer eines Giftmordes in ihrem Gurkenbeet entdeckt! Da jeder ihren Vater, den sanftmütigen Colonel de Luce, für den Mörder zu halten scheint, nimmt die naseweise Flavia persönlich die Ermittlungen auf. Hartnäckig folgt sie jeder noch so abwegigen Spur – bis sie einsehen muss, dass ihr Vater tatsächlich ein dunkles Geheimnis hütet.

Nie zuvor hat die junge Flavia de Luce einen so aufregenden Theaterabend erlebt. Der begnadete Puppenspieler Rupert Porson schlägt das Publikum in seinen Bann, und beim furiosen Finale gibt es sogar eine echte Leiche! Nur die Hobbydetektivin Flavia findet heraus, dass jemand die elektrische Anlage der Bühne manipuliert hat.

Flavia de Luce fa un'orrida scoperta. Nell'orto dei cetrioli, proprio sotto la finestra della sua camera da letto, in mezzo agli attrezzi disordinati del bravo Dogger, il giardiniere autista tuttofare, inciampa in piena notte in un corpo semisepolto; esalando l'ultimo respiro, l'uomo sussurra una strana parola: "Vale!". Poco prima, dietro la porta di una delle infinite stanze di Buckshaw, il castello di famiglia, aveva sentito parole inquietanti pronunciate in una conversazione del padre con uno sconosciuto: "Twining? Il vecchio Tazza? È morto da trent'anni...". "E lo abbiamo ucciso noi".

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers a secret that brings the greatest shock of her life. “I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best female detective I’ve...

***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES*** AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers secrets that bring the greatest...

If you enjoy your horror dipped in buckets of blood and sprinkled with generous amounts of blasphemy, then you've come to the right place!

Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey—mysteries...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Flavia de Luce—“part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” (The New York Times Book Review)—takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in...