Flavia de Luce · Book 10
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
- Published
- 1 January 2019
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781984817563
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Golden Tresses of the Dead is the tenth book in Flavia de Luce, published in 2019 and running 352 pages, continuing Alan Bradley's cozy-with-real-bite blend of forensic chemistry and family secrets deep into the series' run.
Its place in Flavia de Luce
The Golden Tresses of the Dead is book 10 in the Flavia de Luce series. It follows The Grave's a Fine and Private Place. It is followed by What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust. See the full Flavia de Luce reading order.
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce lives in a crumbling English country pile called Buckshaw with her distant father, two spiteful older sisters, and a Victorian chemistry laboratory she has claimed as her own private kingdom. She is obsessed with poisons — their properties, their history, their delivery — and it is only a matter of time before a body turns up on the cucumber patch for her to apply that knowledge to. Set in the placid English village of Bishop's Lacey in the early 1950s, each novel drops a corpse…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385678490
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409172918
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781432859220