The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Torrent Download

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It’s the summer of 1950 and in the big mansion in Buckshaw, the young Flavia de Luce, a budding chemist who is passionate about poison, is fascinated by a series of unexplained events: a dead bird stands in front of the door, ‘ a seal strange to its beak. A few hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber field watching him as he takes his last breath.

For Flavia, upset as well as happy, life begins in all seriousness when the murder arrives in Buckshaw. I wish I could say I was scared, but I wasn’t. The opposite. It was by far the most interesting thing that ever happened to me in my life.