The Golden Tresses of the Dead

by Alan Bradley

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES

THE TENTH BOOK IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FLAVIA DE LUCE SERIES FROM THE WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DEBUT DAGGER AWARD, BARRY AWARD, AGATHA AWARD, MACAVITY AWARD, DILYS AWARD, AND ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD

OVER FOUR MILLION COPIES OF THE SERIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

The winds of change continue to pound at Buckshaw as the de Luces must confront, once more, the loss of one of their own, pulled away from them by the chains of holy matrimony.

Ophelia is married and a de Luce no more, but before the wedding party is even over, a macabre discovery is made in the wedding cake—a human finger.

Flavia de Luce, sister of the bride, expert chemist, and now one half of Arthur Dogger & Associates: Discreet Investigations, can hardly believe it, and her excitement only builds when she and the ever-loyal Dogger receive their very first client!

But when that client is found poisoned, Flavia learns that some things never change—the chemicals necessary to form something called Dragendorff’s Reagent, for one, and, of course, death.

Drawn into a world of missionaries, miracle cures, and a railway that caters to the dead, Flavia and Dogger team up to solve their most baffling case yet. But could this be the one case that will prove too distressing even for Flavia?


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RIGHTS SOLD

US: Delacorte
US Audio: Random House
US Large Print: Thorndike
Canada: Doubleday, January 2019
UK: Orion
UK Audio: W.F.Howes
Finland: Bazar
Germany: Blanvalet/Penhaligon
Italy: Sellerio
Poland: Vesper
Russia: AST
TV: Robert Mickelson, Mystic Point Productions

(Photo by Shirley Bradley)

ABOUT ALAN BRADLEY

Alan Bradley is the internationally bestselling author of short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. The Flavia de Luce mystery series has been sold in 39 territories. The books have been bestsellers in Canada, the USA, Germany, Russia, Brazil, China, and Holland, appearing on bestseller lists in The New York Times and Der Spiegel.

PRAISE FOR ALAN BRADLEY'S THE GOLDEN TRESSES OF THE DEAD

“Alan Bradley created one of the most memorable amateur sleuths of the twenty-first century. Flavia de Luce is a mere twelve years old when she first appears in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Almost terrifyingly precocious, Flavia loves chemistry, her father, and her buddy Digger, her father’s batman. Flavia doesn’t age much over the course of the ten books to date in the series, but she faces personal and familial trials that would bring many an adult to their knees and somehow comes out unbowed but wiser about human nature.” — CRIMEREADS

“What follows in this 10th book is plotting and characterization as charming, amusing and original as everything that has gone before.” —TORONTO STAR

“Delightful…. The mysteries in Mr. Bradley’s books are engaging, but the real lure is Ms. de Luce, the irreverent youngster.” —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“A winning tenth mystery.” —PEOPLE

“Flavia’s over-the-top use of alliteration…and proudly precocious, sesquipedalian vocabulary…along with the thoroughly endearing cast of characters, make this series’ tenth installment a laugh-out-loud winner.”  —BOOKLIST, starred review

“Excellent… Bradley, who has few peers at combining fair-play clueing with humor and has fun mocking genre conventions, shows no sign of running out of ideas.”
 —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review

“Flavia de Luce hasn’t lost a sister, she’s gained a case—and what a case…. Perhaps the most consistently hilarious adventure of the alarmingly precocious heroine.”
 —KIRKUS REVIEWS

“With his usual understated style, Alan Bradley has created an engaging mystery…. The chemical details, quaint English village traditions and midcentury charm all add up to make The Golden Tresses of the Dead a delightful novel.”
 —SHELF AWARENESS