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Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
Cozy mystery
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
Book 8 of the Flavia de Luce series
After returning from Canada, Flavia finds Buckshaw subdued by her father's serious illness and seeks distraction in a small errand for the vicar's wife. The errand leads her to a reclusive woodcarver hanging dead upside down behind his bedroom door. A lottery ticket, children's books, local memories, and a watchful cat provide clues to a life more complicated than it appeared. Wry and melancholy, this mystery suits readers who enjoy postwar villages, literary clues, chemistry-minded detection, and a young heroine using murder to postpone fears she cannot analyze in a laboratory.
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Crime, danger, violence, and death
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