I'm working my way through a series of murder mysteries by Alan Bradley. They are interesting because the main character is an 11 year old girl-chemistry genius called Flavia De Luce, set in post WWII England.

I think the murder mystery part is probably fairly standard fare (I don't read a lot of murder mysteries), but I really like how he writes the character. I sense a BBC/CBC tv series sometime in the future.

James.