Precocious child chemist and amateur detective Flavia de Luce has been sent to school from her home in Britain to Canada.
Flavia is once again plunged into a mystery on her first night at the school when a burned body falls out of the fireplace chimney in her bedroom. So naturally Flavia has to investigate this. But her investigation reveals that Miss Bodycote's Female Academy is a very strange and peculiar institution, with sinister students and teachers and that much is expected of Flavia beyond the ordinary studies.
I don't know why I picked up this book. I didn't care for the first one I read and I didn't like this one either. At least Flavia is not as bratty as she was in the other book, maybe because she is away from her family.
I didn't grasp what the deal was with this boarding school or a lot of other details in the novel. It seemed like a rather confusing mish-mosh and I didn't understand the mystery or the reasons behind it.
I gave the first book a rating of fair, but I disliked this one even more.
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