NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, the world\'s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth ( The Seattle Times ). -- Publishers Weekly (starred review).
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. . . . -- The Wall Street Journal A ghoulish question is at the heart of Bradley\'s excellent tenth Flavia de Luce novel. de Luce, the irreverent youngster.
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Little does she know that their first case will be extremely close to home, beginning with an unwelcome discovery in Ophelia\'s wedding cake: a human finger.
But Flavia and Dogger persevere.
So Flavia and dependable Dogger, estate gardener and sounding board extraordinaire, set up shop at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, eager to serve--not so simple an endeavor with her odious little moon-faced cousin, Undine, constantly underfoot.
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.
Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl.
A church is a wonderful place for a wedding, muses Flavia, surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar.
Yes, Flavia de Luce\'s sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon.
Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop\'s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, the world\'s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth ( The Seattle Times )
