This is another Flavia de Luce installment. I love Flavia. If you are not familiar with this precocious an eleven-year-old sleuth, I highly recommend starting at the beginning of the series.
It's Christmastime and Flavia, a budding chemist is whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. She is soon
distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ decaying
English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid
a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop’s Lacey gathers at
Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the
evening’s shocking conclusion: a body found, past midnight, strangled to
death with a length of film. But who among the assembled guests would
stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of
suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her disposal
to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.
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