Thomson, E. S.

Nightshade

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ISBN 13:
9781472131515
author:
Thomson, E. S.
format:
Paperback / softback
publisher:
Constable
language:
English
Publication Year:
2022
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 centimetres (0
Genre:
Fiction & Literature, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths,
Condition:
New
supplier_id:
9
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£10.10

Description

London, 1851, was a season of restlessness. For apothecary Jem Flockhart, it meant a chance to redesign her physic garden. But when a man's skeleton is unearthed beneath the deadly nightshade, with a smaller child-like skeleton curled at its feet, plans are thrown into confusion. The body bears evidence of knife wounds and macabre objects: a brass bowl, a curious coin-like token, and a set of tiny ivory sculls. The police claim the victim is too long-buried for answers to be found, but Jem cannot ignore a corpse in her own garden. Her plans to the garden, laid out forty years earlier, reveal a list of five names. As 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. A dark world of addiction, madness, power, and death begins to unfold, striking at the very heart of Jem's own history.

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