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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches is the 6th book in the Flavia de Luce series. Flavia is a lively and brilliant 11-year-old living with her father and sisters in a small village in England in the 1950s. In this book, Flavia is waiting at the train station when a stranger whispers something in her ear. Not long after, the stranger is pushed under the train and Flavia must figure out why he was murdered and what he has to do with the de Luce family.

Flavia is one of my favorite characters, and this series has quickly become one of my favorites, as well. I can identify with Flavia, who is something of a misfit and a loner, but in a rather heart-warming way. It is amazing that Alan Bradley can write about a young girl so wonderfully! The book is an easy and unfortunately quick read. (Why is it that the best books are read so quickly, while others just seem to drag along?) Bradley captures the quirkiness of the English town and this fallen-on-hard-times, upper-class family very well. I love visiting Bishop's Lacey and Buckshaw to find out what will happen next.

I highly recommend this book to any one who enjoys a funny and smart mystery with an absolutely enjoyable girl detective.

I received this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.


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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches A Flavia de Luce Novel Alan Bradley Books Reviews

These wonderful adventures should be saved - to be savored in one's own bleak moments. Like a warm fire during a blizzard, Flavia herself, the twelve year old heroine and sleuth, is a joy even though in this book her creator does not do her justice. My advice Read the series and skip this. I am personally offended that the author would take his genius, no-nonsense twelve year old heroine off into quackery.

Without spoilers, Mr. Bradley, who created his genius female Sherlock, completely reverses course and has her embark on a completely bizarre mission while apparently enlisting reasonable adults as accomplices.

In the first few pages, a "life or death" message is passed from a stranger on a train platform to Flavia. Within seconds the man is pushed from the platform onto the path of an oncoming train. And yet, Flavia does not deliver the message until far into the book as she forges ahead with a plan that the Flavia from previous books would never have considered. None of the characters are well developed as walk-ons from previous books muddy the waters. I gave this book three stars only because the previous books are so delightful, it would be a disservice to readers to rate the entire series based on this one inexplicable aberration. Writing is still first rate but the author veered off from charming to verging on science fiction and not in a good way. So disappointing.
Flavia De Luce, in Bradley's latest in the series, is confronted this time with a world greater than her almost 12 year old mind is able to fully grasp. A genius, a child prodigy, Flavia normally...if you will, has a sense, an insight, inborn skill in deductive reasoning far beyond her years...a young Ms Marple. While she has earned the well deserved respect of those seasoned in professional crime solving, nothing has prepared her for unfinished WW II intrigue... the mysterious disappearance and death of her mother ten years prior and her ultimate discovery. In the midst of belated funeral arrangements, Flavia is confronted with coded messages, spies and a murderous traitor in the family's midst.
Although I had enjoyed the original Flavia mystery, I found it difficult to enjoy some of her further adventures. I had trouble resolving the lack affection and supervision in Flavia's life. In this installment all or most of all of the circumstances leading to the apparent lack of supervision, and coldness of Flavia's childhood are revealed. Also revealed are the circumstances leading to the the families missing mother and her fathers painful reserve. As such I found this novel a great relief and it's departure from the formula of the past mysteries interesting. After all, how many dead bodies should one eleven year old girl be subject to, even one as self reliant as Flavia.

This book is both a perfect wrap up to Flavia's real childhood and a starting point from which her adventures can expand out in unpredictable directions. I would personally love it if her next adventure includes more than just the murder of the month but rather diverges from what had begun to be formulaic into the vast expanses the author has opened up in this volume. I would also love if the personal growth our heroine is beginning to exhibit continues. I find a Flavia slightly more aware of the needs and feelings of others far more interesting than the devious but charming little girl she has been until now.

So I look forward to the next Flavia adventure with interest which I would not have been had the author just offered us more of the same. It's easy to see from this novel where the setting for the next one will start, but where will it take us? Will we eventually get to see the fearless child as a grown woman? And just what kind of a woman will she grow up to be? The stage is set.
This is the 6th book in the Flavia de Luce series and marks a big turning point for series. Flavia and her family are stunned by the return of Harriet, though not in a way that any of the family would have wished. As they wait for the train to arrive, Flavia is given a cryptic message by a man who then dies after being pushed in front of a train. The train is met by a number of dignitaries, including Winston Churchill, who has his own cryptic message for Flavia. She finds a series of old films that show her mother in her younger days, not initially realizing that the films hide important clues. As she learns more about her mother’s mission, Flavia searches to find a traitor hidden amongst them. There is a particularly moving scene as she tries to cheat death that was simply heartbreaking. Additionally, Flavia must deal with a precocious cousin and her family as each one of them prepares for the big changes ahead. Dogger remains a true companion as he helps Flavia and her family deal with one of the most difficult times of their lives.
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches is the 6th book in the Flavia de Luce series. Flavia is a lively and brilliant 11-year-old living with her father and sisters in a small village in England in the 1950s. In this book, Flavia is waiting at the train station when a stranger whispers something in her ear. Not long after, the stranger is pushed under the train and Flavia must figure out why he was murdered and what he has to do with the de Luce family.

Flavia is one of my favorite characters, and this series has quickly become one of my favorites, as well. I can identify with Flavia, who is something of a misfit and a loner, but in a rather heart-warming way. It is amazing that Alan Bradley can write about a young girl so wonderfully! The book is an easy and unfortunately quick read. (Why is it that the best books are read so quickly, while others just seem to drag along?) Bradley captures the quirkiness of the English town and this fallen-on-hard-times, upper-class family very well. I love visiting Bishop's Lacey and Buckshaw to find out what will happen next.

I highly recommend this book to any one who enjoys a funny and smart mystery with an absolutely enjoyable girl detective.

I received this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.