The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: The gripping second novel in the cosy Flavia De Luce series
Alan Bradley
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag: The gripping second novel in the cosy Flavia De Luce series
Alan Bradley
‘I was lying dead in the churchyard…’ So says eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce - but soon a murder provides a gruesome distraction from her own death…
A travelling puppet show arrives in the sleepy English village of Bishop’s Lacey, and everyone gathers to watch a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall. But a shadow is cast over proceedings when a shocking murder takes place during the performance - a murder which strangely echoes a tragedy that occurred many years before.
For Flavia, undoing the complex knot that ties these strands together will test her precocious powers of deduction to the limit - and throw a revealing light into some of the darker corners of the adult world…
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