What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust: A Flavia de Luce Novel - Alan Bradley

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.