The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag

In this superbly entertaining follow up to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, plucky protagonist Flavia de Luce returns in another disarmingly sinister mystery. Master puppeteer Rupert Porson arrives in the humble hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey in a broken van but leaves – mid-performance, no less! – in a hearse. Flavia de Luce puts aside her nasty concoctions in her chemistry lab to piece together the clues behind what she believes is a murder.