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Violence
Some
A murder investigation in a church crypt; ancient and recent death intertwined
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The growing sense that the world Flavia inhabits has hidden layers she is only beginning to understand; a child's dawning awareness of family secrets
What this book is about
The village of Bishop's Lacey is preparing to open the five-hundred-year-old tomb of St. Tancred — patron saint of the local church — when a very different body is found inside: that of the church's organist. Flavia de Luce investigates while simultaneously discovering that her own family's past has more secrets than she knew. Alan Bradley's fifth Flavia de Luce mystery introduces the larger conspiracy that will drive the rest of the series and pairs its cozy murder investigation with Flavia's growing awareness that her mother's disappearance is not what it seemed.
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fifth of the Flavia de Luce series; begins a larger arc about Flavia's mother
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