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.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781472131515Number of pages: 368Weight: 255 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 28 mm
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