The Weed That Strings the Hangman's bag

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Murder in an English Village submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on July 14, 2013, 12:04am Part of a series of mystery novels for young readers, "The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag" features 11-year-old British genius Flavia de Luce, who lives in the fictional English town of Bishop's Lacey with her father and two older sisters. Flavia is a self-taught chemist who is always solving crimes for the police, who do not appreciate her intervention.

In this book, Flavia solves the hanging death of a very young boy, so the story is rather disturbing and some readers may chose to skip this one. Generally, though, I find that youth and adults both will enjoy this series.

As it is set in the 1950s, the Flavia de Luce novels show the prejudices of the time period and place, including against a German former POW and against women in general. Some readers may find the characters' reactions to then-new technology, such as television, interesting.