The Queen Of Poisons

Author : Robert Thorogood
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728284481
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Poisons written by Robert Thorogood and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies suddenly during a town council meeting. When traces of aconite—also known as the queen of poisons—are found in his coffee cup, the police realize he was murdered. But who did it? And why? The police bring Judith, Suzie, and Becks in to investigate the murder as civilian advisors right from the start, so they have free rein to interview suspects and follow the evidence to their heart's content... which is perfect because Judith has no time for rules and standard procedure. But this case has the Marlow Murder Club stumped. Who would want to kill the affable mayor of Marlow? How did they even get the poison into his coffee? And is anyone else in danger? The Marlow Murder Club is about to face their most difficult case yet...

Author : B. J. Magnani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948338738
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of All Poisons written by B. J. Magnani and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Lily Robinson is a brilliant physician with an encyclopedic knowledge of all toxins and poisons, and a penchant for stilettos. In an unforeseeable twist in her life, the United States Government appeals to her patriotism--and her knowledge of how to kill without bloodshed, to rid the world of threats to our nation.

Author : Robert Thorogood
Publisher : Marlow Murder Club Mysteries
ISBN 13 : 9780008567330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Poisons written by Robert Thorogood and published by Marlow Murder Club Mysteries. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith, Suzie, and Becks, AKA The Marlow Murder Club, are on the hunt for a killer . . . 'I love Robert Thorogood's writing' Peter James * * * Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies suddenly during a Town Council meeting. When traces of aconite - also known as the queen of poisons - are found in his coffee cup, the police realise he was murdered. But who did it? And why? The police bring Judith, Suzie and Becks in to investigate as Civilian Advisors right from the start, so they have free rein to interview suspects and follow the evidence to their heart's content, which is perfect because Judith has no time for rules and standard procedure. But this case has the Marlow Murder Club stumped. Who would want to kill the affable Mayor of Marlow? How did they even get the poison into his coffee? And is anyone else in danger? The Marlow Murder Club are about to face their most difficult case yet . . . * * * Praise for The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries: 'Cosy crime at its best' Crime Monthly 'Cleverly plotted and laugh-out-loud funny' Yours magazine 'The perfect cosy crime to curl up with' Heat

Author : Robert Thorogood
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008567328
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries, Book 3) written by Robert Thorogood and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top 10 Sunday Times bestsellerNOW A MAJOR TV SERIES on Drama and UKTV Play ‘I love the audacity of the Marlow gang, those ladies sure know how to live’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Author : Addie Thorley
Publisher : Page Street YA
ISBN 13 : 1624147143
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Affair of Poisons written by Addie Thorley and published by Page Street YA. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one looks kindly on the killer of a king. “Fast-paced and refreshing.” – SLJ, starred review “The perfect blend of history and dark fantasy.” – Mary Taranta, author of Shimmer and Burn “Thrilling, romantic, and addictive.” – Rosalyn Eves, author of Blood Rose Rebellion “The only cure is to finish it.” – Lyndsay Ely, author of Gunslinger Girl After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother’s Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they’re not heroes of the people, as they’ve always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to purge. Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half of the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant dauphin. Forced to hide in the sewers beneath the city, Josse’s hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossible—until his path collides with Mirabelle’s. She’s a deadly poisoner. He’s a bastard prince. They are sworn enemies, yet they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever hope to succeed?

Author : BJ Magnani
Publisher : Encircle+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1948338742
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of All Poisons written by BJ Magnani and published by Encircle+ORM. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boston physician becomes an assassin for the U.S. government in this medical suspense thriller by an award-winning pathologist. “Hidden under a cloak of legitimacy, I have been pressed to deliver extraordinary service for my country. It has been a successful ruse. A premium blend of dark deception with just an aroma of truth.”—Dr. Lily Robinson Dr. Lily Robinson is a brilliant physician with an encyclopedic knowledge of all toxins and poisons…and a penchant for stilettos. Then in a sudden twist, the United States government appeals to her patriotism—and her knowledge of how to kill without bloodshed—to rid the world of threats to our nation. Emotionally blunted and flawed, she struggles to move between assassin and healer, yet still able to fulfill her competing objectives. Now asked to assassinate a terrorist threatening New York City, she quickly realizes the Russians have already released a deadly toxin in a surprisingly innocuous medium.

Author : Andrea Hairston
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250260558
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master of Poisons written by Andrea Hairston and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. This is medicine for a broken world." —Daniel José Older Named a Best of 2020 Pick for Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2020 Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile. Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men. Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston's characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Eleanor Herman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250140870
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Art of Poison written by Eleanor Herman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Washington Independent Review of Books' 50 Favorite Books of 2018 • A Buzzfeed Best Book of 2018 "Morbidly witty." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "You’ll be as appalled at times as you are entertained." —Bustle, one of The 17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018 "A heady mix of erudite history and delicious gossip." —Aja Raden, author of Stoned In the Washington Post roundup, "What your favorite authors are reading this summer," A.J. Finn says, “I want to read The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman’s history of poisons." Hugely entertaining, a work of pop history that traces the use of poison as a political—and cosmetic—tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family’s spoons, tried on their underpants and tested their chamber pots. Ironically, royals terrified of poison were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily with their cosmetics, medications, and filthy living conditions. Women wore makeup made with mercury and lead. Men rubbed turds on their bald spots. Physicians prescribed mercury enemas, arsenic skin cream, drinks of lead filings, and potions of human fat and skull, fresh from the executioner. The most gorgeous palaces were little better than filthy latrines. Gazing at gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don’t see what lies beneath the royal robes and the stench of unwashed bodies; the lice feasting on private parts; and worms nesting in the intestines. In The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with cutting-edge forensic discoveries to tell the true story of Europe’s glittering palaces: one of medical bafflement, poisonous cosmetics, ever-present excrement, festering natural illness, and, sometimes, murder.

Author : Sara Poole
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429953314
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poison written by Sara Poole and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover the plot that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge Europe back into medieval darkness. Determined to avenge the killing of her father, Francesca Giordano defies all convention to claim for herself the position of poisoner serving Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, head of the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy. She becomes the confidante of Lucrezia Borgia and the lover of Cesare Borgia. At the same time, she is drawn to the young renegade monk who yearns to save her life and her soul. Navigating a web of treachery and deceit, Francesca pursues her father's killer from the depths of Rome's Jewish ghetto to the heights of the Vatican itself. In so doing, she sets the stage for the ultimate confrontation with ancient forces that will seek to use her darkest desires to achieve their own catastrophic ends.

Author : Kathryn Harkup
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147291130X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A is for Arsenic written by Kathryn Harkup and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ...Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison itself often being a central part of the novel. Her choice of deadly substances was far from random - the characteristics of each often provide vital clues to the discovery of the murderer. With gunshots or stabbings the cause of death is obvious, but this is not the case with poisons. How is it that some compounds prove so deadly, and in such tiny amounts?Christie's extensive chemical knowledge provides the backdrop for A is for Arsenic, in which Kathryn Harkup investigates the poisons used by the murderer in fourteen classic Agatha Christie mysteries. It looks at why certain chemicals kill, how they interact with the body, the cases that may have inspired Christie, and the feasibility of obtaining, administering and detecting these poisons, both at the time the novel was written and today. A is for Arsenic is a celebration of the use of science by the undisputed Queen of Crime.