Flavia de Luce is back, as well as her sister Ophelia, and Dogger the estate gardener. It's fall in Bishop's Lacey, England but not quiet. Ophelia is to be wed and there's excitement in the air.
back blurb: Flavia muses, "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding, surrounded as it is by legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar."
Flavia, age twelve, is an expert in poisons, and has amazing detection skills. Dogger has his own skills and secrets, and helps Flavia in her endeavors. Her first case is a doozy - there's a human finger in Ophelia's wedding cake. What? Who? Why?
Alan Bradley delivers quite a journey for answers in The Golden Tresses of the Dead. It's a hoot to read.
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