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A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley

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4.0

Flavia meets a gypsy and solves another mystery in her own inimitable style. I really enjoy this series.

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5.0

A great book to end my reading year with. Flavia is precocious but some of the things her sisters get her to believe make you realize yes she is only 11. I think the mystery is side story and whatever Flaiva does is the real story. Now to start on the next book in the series before #6 comes out in a couple weeks.

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4.0

After the interminable opening of The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, I am glad to say that the mystery here gets started within the first sixth of the book, and that the preceding pages are full of Bradley's wonderful writing so it goes by quite quickly. In this go, Flavia sets fire to a gypsy's tent, then attempts to atone by offering the gypsy shelter at her family's estate, then finds an intruder in the house, then finds the gypsy beat over the head and nearly dead. Flavia, of course, is delighted by the new mystery.
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