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Violence
Some
A corpse; mystery investigation; Flavia's forensic interests
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
None
Substance Use
None
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; Flavia's ongoing processing of loss and change in her life; the village setting and its embedded secrets
What this book is about
The ninth Flavia de Luce mystery opens on a family boating trip interrupted by a corpse in the water. The investigation draws Flavia into the history of a small village and a church with a peculiar past. Bradley brings Flavia home to England with her characteristic chemistry-informed intellect and her darkly comic relationship with death.
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