Rating: 4/5
Review:
Very enjoyable
I enjoyed The Weed That Strings The Hangman’s Bag very much. It’s
a good mystery, told in the delightful voice of 11-year-old Flavia de
Luce.
This time, a visiting puppet theatre turns out not to be quite as innocent as it likes to appear and a curious death begins to unearth secrets of the past. Set in 1950, Alan Bradley gets the tone and vocabulary very well (with the very occasional anachronism, like the vicar visiting “shut-ins”) and Flavia’s narrative voice makes the whole thing a hugely enjoyable. She is thoroughly engaging, occasionally very funny and just a pleasure to read. The story carried me along very nicely, as did some excellent characters and I’m already looking forward to the next in the series. Warmly recommended.
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