A review by lilylanie
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley

4.0

I love Flavia de Luce a bit more with each book. I won't say too much about this particular novel since the setting is of course the same, and I wouldn't want to give away any of the deliciously twisty mystery, but I love the person Flavia is turning out to be. Fewer of her misadventures seem like simple stupid courage (as they did in the first book) and more like carefully plotted detective work, though she still does things that the mother of any 11-year-old would shudder to contemplate. I like how even though she is clearly intelligent beyond her years, she still has bouts of naïveté and gullibility that reflect her true age.

I immediately started on book #4 in this series and can hardly wait to see what Flavia gets up to next.