And the Oscar goes to Flavia de Luce for Best Actress!  She could act her way into or out of any possible scenario with her face contortions and ability to size up a person's reactions.  And in this book it happens constantly.  Alan Bradley has penned another absolutely cozy, wonderfully witty and chillingly dark, Flavia de Luce murder mystery.  The reader joins the de Luces and Dogger in their mourning while drifting down a river, shortly followed by our heroine humorously catching a dead body.  Through Flavia’s hilarious descriptions, newly introduced characters jump off the page.  While we enjoy again, the sisters’ tit-for-tat, the death of their father has matured all three.  Feely and Daffy, for their own reasons, are more than happy to assist Flavia.  Once more the heroine uses her chemistry background and daringness along with assistance from Dogger, who plays a greater role, to solve the mystery.  Bradley again captures a picturesque, quaint, English town and the characters that live there in such a manner that you cannot put the book down.