Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: A Flavia de Luce Novel (Flavia de Luce #8) - Review

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: A Flavia de Luce Novel (Flavia de Luce #8) 🌟🌟🌟

Expected to be  Published 9/20/16 by Bantam
Finished 9/5/16

- I fear  our world  is  changing, Miss Flavia, and not necessarily  for  the  better.

Wise old Dogger utters these prophetic words  to Flavia  in the first  chapter, after she's  come home  from boarding school  to no reception, her pet chicken gone, and her father in hospital  with a bad case of pneumonia, no visitors allowed.   But for our Flavia, now twelve and shaken up by it all,  life goes on as usual mostly.  She's  pretty free to roam the countryside on her own, and one day discovers  a dead body while on an errand.  She performs her own investigation of the premises before calling in the authorities, and from then on is consumed in the case.  The case was rather complicated, but not for Flavia.  As usual, she seems to know all the  right  places to go and people to see, moreso than the official  investigator.

As I write this, it occurs to me that one could  write virtually the same blurb and the same review  for  every  one of these books (Flavia  discovers  a body,  Flavia  rides  her bike Clara through all  sorts  of weather sorting out clues, Flavia solves the case).  They certainly do follow  a pattern.  Yet the pattern never gets old!  It's  like visiting an old friend.  This time our friend is growing up, like it or not.

Many  thanks  to NetGalley  and the publisher.