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Nightshade
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Description: London 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides to redesign her physic garden. But plans are thrown into confusion when a man's skeleton is unearthed from beneath the deadly nightshade a smaller child - like skeleton curled at its feet. The body bears evidence of knife wounds to its ribs and arms and is accompanied by a collection of macabre objects: a brass bowl a curious coin - like token a set of tiny ivory sculls. The police claim the victim is too long - buried for answers to be found but for Jem a corpse in her own garden is something that cannot be ignored. The plans to the garden laid out some forty years earlier reveal a list of five names. When Jem and Will start asking questions the murders begin. Each victim has a past connection with the physic garden; each corpse is found with its jaw broken wide and its mouth stuffed with deadly nightshade. As they move closer to uncovering the truth Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain encounter a dark world of addiction madness power and death that strikes at the very heart of Jem's own history. This time the poison is personal.
Title: Nightshade
Author(s): Thomson E. S.
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472131515
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 4/12/2022
Category: Historical Mysteries
Description: London 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides to redesign her physic garden. But plans are thrown into confusion when a man's skeleton is unearthed from beneath the deadly nightshade a smaller child - like skeleton curled at its feet. The body bears evidence of knife wounds to its ribs and arms and is accompanied by a collection of macabre objects: a brass bowl a curious coin - like token a set of tiny ivory sculls. The police claim the victim is too long - buried for answers to be found but for Jem a corpse in her own garden is something that cannot be ignored. The plans to the garden laid out some forty years earlier reveal a list of five names. When Jem and Will start asking questions the murders begin. Each victim has a past connection with the physic garden; each corpse is found with its jaw broken wide and its mouth stuffed with deadly nightshade. As they move closer to uncovering the truth Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain encounter a dark world of addiction madness power and death that strikes at the very heart of Jem's own history. This time the poison is personal.
Title: Nightshade
Author(s): Thomson E. S.
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472131515
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 4/12/2022
Category: Historical Mysteries