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The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place audiobook

  • By: Alan Bradley
  • Narrator: Jayne Entwistle
  • Category: Cozy, Fiction, Mystery & Detective
  • Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2018
  • Language: English
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The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place Audiobook Summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth” (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley.

In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia’s grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia’s mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder—although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.

Praise for The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place

“Flavia [is] irrepressible, precocious and indefatigable. . . . A whole new chapter of Flavia’s life opens as she approaches adolescence. Will she become the Madame Curie of crime?”Bookreporter

“Outstanding . . . As usual, Bradley makes his improbable series conceit work and relieves the plot’s inherent darkness with clever humor.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“There’s only one Flavia. . . . Series fans will anticipate the details of this investigation, along with one last taste of Flavia’s unorthodox family life.”Library Journal (starred review)
 
“Bradley’s unquenchable heroine brings ‘the most complicated case I had ever come across’ to a highly satisfying conclusion, with the promise of still brighter days ahead.”Kirkus Reviews

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Jayne Entwistle is the narrator of The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place audiobook that was written by Alan Bradley

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Alan Bradley is the author of The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place

The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place Full Details

Narrator Jayne Entwistle
Length 9 hours 47 minutes
Author Alan Bradley
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date May 09, 2024
ISBN 9780449807705

Subjects

The publisher of the The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: cozy mystery, historical mystery, crime, suspense thriller books, British mysteries, murder mystery books, thriller, British detective mysteries, mystery thriller suspense, thriller books, thrillers, mystery, mysteries, cozy mysteries, mystery books, sibling rivalry, England, coming of age, relationships, women, family, chemistry, historical mysteries, historical novels, historical fiction books, historical fiction, sisters, Flavia de Luce series, Flavia de Luce, Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce books, Alan Bradley, poison, cozy, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical The BISAC Subject Code is Cozy, Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Additional info

The publisher of the The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780449807705.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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