A nun’s corpse leads beloved amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce to uncover decades-old secrets in this charming novel in the New York Times bestselling series. “I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best female detective I’ve ever read, full of realism, self-confidence, and emotion (in roughly equal parts), and her tales are hilarious, engaging, and occasionally heartbreaking.”—Diana Gabaldon In the cloisters of Golgotha House, a mere binocular’s-squint away from Buckshaw, a nun lies dead. When her fellow Sisters prepare her corpse for burial, they discover that their companion has been living a shocking lie for years. The truth about her past, and the dark reasons she harbored for escaping it, are impossible to fathom. Charged with cracking this mystery is the firm of Arthur Dogger & Associates (Discreet investigations)—consisting, of course, of the inimitable young Flavia de Luce herself and her faithful partner-in-detection Dogger. Working under the eye of a glowering Mother Superior, Flavia and Dogger must uncover a decades-old crime and a secret that lies an ocean away—along with a trail of deception that lies closer to home. Alan Bradley is the New York Times bestselling author of ten Flavia de Luce mystery novels and the memoir The Shoebox Bible . His first Flavia de Luce novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie , received the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award, and was nominated for the Anthony Award. His other Flavia de Luce novels are The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag , A Red Herring Without Mustard , I Am Half-Sick of Shadows , Speaking from Among the Bones , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches , As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd , The Grave's a Fine and Private Place , The Golden Tresses of the Dead , as well as the ebook short story "The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse." He lives and writes on an island in the middle of the Irish Sea.