She cupped her hands around the thing, as if to shield my eyes from the horrors that were swimming in its murky depths. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Is she a faker, motivated by the fact that the rom used to camp in the grounds of Buckshaw until Flavia's father turned them off, with tragic results? Or is there some truth to her powers, and the message she brings back from the other side? And when the village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how will a growing fascination with gypsy lore help Flavia to solve it? 'And she needs your help.'For Flavia, the old gypsy's words open up old wounds and new possibilities - not all of them nice ones.

'She's trying to come home,' the old woman intones. What the fortune teller in fact claimed to see was a vision of Flavia's mother, Harriet, who died on a mountainside in Tibet when Flavia was less than a year old. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' So begins eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce's third adventure through the charming but deceptively dark byways of the village of Bishop's Lacey.

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