{"product_id":"the-sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie-a-flavia-de-luce-mystery","title":"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE AGATHA • ARTHUR ELLIS • DILYS • DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine.”—Chicago Sun-Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBONUS: This edition contains a The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie discussion guide and an excerpt from Alan Bradley's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Spine Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52360790737177,"sku":"9780385343497","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8399\/1833\/files\/9780385343497.jpg?v=1778182092","url":"https:\/\/thespinebookshop.com\/products\/the-sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie-a-flavia-de-luce-mystery","provider":"The Spine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}