Lynn D. reviewed on 1/4/2014

" Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether theyre found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancreds death, the English hamlet of Bishops Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saints tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove theres never such thing as an open-and-shut case."

This was such a pleasure to read that I slowed down my reading just so I wouldn't finish too soon! Not only did I NOT WANT the story to end but I immediately went out and found/bought all the other Flavia books by this author. Flavia is not only smart she speaks her mind as she wants, is more than clever --- and, made me laugh out loud so many times! A GREAT READ!!!!

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