Review: Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
What would you do if you watched someone gasp their last breath in what you were certain was a heinous murder? In The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie , Flavia de Luce watched in fascination and took exceptional mental notes. Flavia is not your ordinary 10-year-old, and the de Luce family is not a typical British family, even in 1950. Flavia has a hint that something odd is occurring in her home that hot, lazy summer, and it has nothing to do with the torture she and her sisters Daphne and Ophelia execute against each other. It goes beyond Mrs. Mullet's inedible custard pies and Father's obsession with stamps. It even goes beyond the absent Harriet. Flavia's summer occupation involves nothing less than King George VI and a 30-year-old murder. The family discovers a dead jack snape with a postage stamp on its beak left at their door. After overhearing a conversation she doesn't understand, Flavia wakes after a fitful night and, sensing a disruption i...