A New Flavia de Luce Novel Brings the Detective Back

Alan Bradley’s mystery series gives us a young murder-solving chemist in ‘What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust: A Flavia de Luce Novel.’

“What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust: A Flavia de Luce Novel,” by Alan Bradley. The adolescent solves a mystery with chemistry.

Flavia de Luce is back. After a five-year  absence, a new book in this cozy mystery series has arrived.

“What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust: A Flavia de Luce Novel” by Alan Bradley picks up Flavia’s story where the last mystery, featuring the wedding of  Flavia’s oldest sister Ophelia, left off. It’s 1953 with Ophelia still on her honeymoon.