Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old amateur detective, desperately wants the approval of those around her. Her sisters, her father, Bishop Lacey's real detective, and his beautiful wife Antigone. Her deepest desire comes to fruition in The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches as she not only discovers that her family is essential in classified government missions, but that she has been unknowingly prepared her entire life, by those closest to her, to play an extensive role herself.
The Dead in their Vaulted Arches is beautiful and the reader celebrates with Flavia as she matures, makes connections, and discovers her self worth and self importance. The unraveling ends in this novel leave room for even greater adventures to be had and stories to be told.
