JUNE DELICATE BUT DEADLY CLUB SELECTION and PAM W'S FAVORITE


Delacorte, $23.00 (signed first U.S. edition)

This charming debut novel, set in 1950 England, won last year's CWA Debut Dagger Award. It introduces 10-year-old chemist Flavia de Luce, third and youngest daughter of a widowed father. When a stranger visits the de Luces' country manor and later winds up dead, Flavia is determined to solve the mystery in a way that clears the people she loves most. This is a wonderful, old-fashioned story in the best sense of that word, and I can't wait for Flavia’s next adventure.