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Violence
Some
A death; mystery investigation; nothing graphic
Language
Barely any
Mild language; Flavia's characteristic voice
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; displacement from home and what it does to Flavia's sense of self; the mystery of her mother as a thread through the series; adolescent humor as a defense mechanism
What this book is about
The seventh Flavia de Luce mystery finds the precocious chemist-detective sent to a Canadian boarding school — a banishment that begins with a body dropping from a chimney. Bradley takes his beloved character out of her English home setting and gives her a new world to investigate while the mystery of her mother Harriet's fate continues. Flavia's voice is undiminished by displacement.
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