The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley was another wonderful Flavia de Luce murder mystery. It starts of at Feely’s wedding where a finger is found in the wedding cake. It just gets better from there. Dogger and Flavia are working together in their private detective company. They are hired to solve their first mystery and on the side they work together to solve how the finger ended up in the cake. Dogger’s character plays more of role and Flavia seems to have grown up a little. Undine is even brought a little more into the fold. The reader gets to see another side of Cynthia. The new characters are just what we’ve come to expect from a Flavia mystery, crazy, cooky, and filled with secrets. It’s pure delight. This story is amazing with everything you could want, a little bit of romance, humor, history, botany, and chemistry lessons, and of course bizarre murders.