![]() ![]() An innocuous activity, with the obligatory exchange of money, soon spirals into more violent matters when Flavia stumbles onto the woman in her caravan, near death from bludgeoning. ![]() ![]() But when the world seems more confusing than ever, fantasy at a historical remove is the perfect balm - made more so with a precocious, poison-loving sprite sleuthing out bloodless, tidy, yet horrifying crimes.This time around, when not vexed by older sisters Daphne and Ophelia and worried about the fate of Buckshaw (after ominous words from her father that they might have to sell the estate), Flavia’s investigative powers zero in on a gypsy woman, whom she originally seeks out for fortune-telling. ![]() Her post-Second World War English country house world is heightened and mythologized, more resembling the comforting images of a Masterpiece Theatre television program than a BBC newsreel. At 11 years old, she’s intelligent in the blunt, nuance-free way of those untouched by pesky things like puberty and adulthood, but still innocent enough to be caught off guard by unexpected revelations and the fine line between truth and lie.
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