Reading the Detectives discussion

Welcome to our Nov/Dec buddy read of Speaking from Among the Bones
First published in 2013 this is the fifth in the Flavia de Luce series.

Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're 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. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's 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 there's never such thing as an open-and-shut case.

Please feel free to post spoilers in this thread.

While this was a re-read really remembered very little. I liked the slightly better relationship between Flavia and her sisters, and how Flavia discovered more about her mother through her father and her mother's friend in lock up.

I am wondering how the spoiler will change Flavia's life in the next book, as I have not read them before.

Sandy wrote: "While this was a re-read really remembered very little. I liked the slightly better relationship between Flavia and her sisters, and how Flavia discovered more about her mother through her father a..."

Same here - I first read these as published, in the early 2010s, lot of water under the bridge since then for me! So rereading is almost like encountering them brand new - I remember major plot points in Flavia’s life and family history, but no details of each puzzle.

This was a series I started, and - like so many others - stalled on. I don't think I would ever finish a mystery series without the group!

I struggled with this one - I seem to like only every other book in the series! With less emphasis on the relationship between the sisters, and the plot veering all over the place this felt pretty baggy to me. But that revelation at the end - I had to go straight on to the next book without waiting!