Nightshade (Paperback)
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Nightshade (Paperback)

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Paperback 368 Pages
Published: 07/10/2021
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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 Group
ISBN: 9781472131515
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 255 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 28 mm

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“I loved it!”

“Nightshade” is the fifth book in author E.S. Thomson’s ‘Jem Flockhart’ series set in Victorian London.
- London, 1851. Apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides to redesign her physic garden but plans are... More

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“Another glorious trip to dirty, dangerous and evil-smelling 19th century London.”

In the spirit of full disclosure, I’ll admit I was already a fan of E S Thomson’s series of adventures featuring Jem Flockhart even before I picked up her latest, “Nightshade”. The good news is that this is a worthy... More

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