Friday, May 29, 2009

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

This is a mystery with an 11 year old girl narrator who is a bit of a prodigy in Chemistry. She lives in a moldering old British estate with two older sisters and a distant stamp collecting father. A dead body shows up in the garden and she decides to investigate. It's quite enjoyable in a Nancy Drew sort of way. Although her voice is way older than her years she stills acts like a child whizzing along on her bike to sleuth. Her bike has a name which reminds me of when I was young and my bike was an extension of myself, a character in my stories. She is constantly plotting rather sophisticated chemical mischief against her sisters which I would never had been intellectually capable of (although I hasten to add I am sure I would have been morally capable!) which is fun to read and the mystery unfolds quite nicely with only a few characters to keep track of and suspect.

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