TY - BOOK AU - Bradley,Alan TI - I am half-sick of shadows: a Flavia de Luce novel T2 - A Flavia de Luce Novel SN - 9780385344029 PY - 2011/// KW - Girls KW - England KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Celebrities KW - Crimes against KW - Christmas stories KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published in hardcover, 2011; Includes an excerpt from the forthcoming book: 'Speaking from among the bones' N2 - It's Christmastime, and Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry, is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the evening's shocking conclusion: a body found strangled to death with a length of film. But who among the assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight ER -