The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel

The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, â€œthe worldâ€™s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuthâ€ (The Seattle Times).

Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishopâ€™s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luceâ€™s sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. â€œA church is a wonderful place for a wedding,â€ muses Flavia, â€œsurrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar.â€ Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the chemical nature of poisons, she has solved many mysteries, sharpening her considerable detection skills to the point where she had little choice but to turn professional. So Flavia and dependable Dogger, estate gardener and sounding board extraordinaire, set up shop at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, eager to serveâ€”not so simple an endeavor with her odious little moon-faced cousin, Undine, constantly underfoot. But Flavia and Dogger persevere. Little does she know that their first case will be extremely close to home, beginning with an unwelcome discovery in Opheliaâ€™s wedding cake: a human finger.

Praise for The Golden Tresses of the Dead

â€œDelightful . . . The mysteries in Mr. Bradleyâ€™s books are engaging, but the real lure is Ms. de Luce, the irreverent youngster.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal

â€œA ghoulish question is at the heart of Bradleyâ€™s excellentÂ tenth Flavia de Luce novel. . . . Bradley, who has few peers at combining fair-play clueing with humor and has fun mocking genre conventions,Â shows no sign of running out of ideas.â€â€”Publishers WeeklyÂ (starred review)
Country USA
Manufacturer Bantam
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-01-22
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Bantam
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-01-22
Format	Kindle eBook

The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel

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