Thrice The Brinded Cat Hath Mew'D Av Alan Bradley

<p>''The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite.'' <i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br>CURIOUSITY WON''T KILL THIS CAT...<br><br>Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father''s illness.<br><br>Forbidden from visiting Colonel de Luce in hospital, Flavia busies herself in the village, but she soon makes a macabre discover: the corpse of a reclusive woodcarver hanging upside down on the back of a door, in a house empty but for a curiously uncurious cat.<br><br>While the local constabulary are stumped, Flavia is soon piecing together a puzzle that connects a death by murderous gulls on a desolate island, a local woman said to be a witch, and a beloved children''s author who terrified his own son - plus, of course, a certain tortoise-shell cat ...</p>