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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury

Start date: January 1, 2023

Finish date: February 28, 2023

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Dec 23, 2022 ♥ Sandi ❣ rated it really liked it

Shelves: z2022-3500-books, historical-history, debut, medical-mental-health, non-fiction, 300-350-pages-minus-plus, nature-environment, death, true-crime-or-based-on, local-area-or-author

4 stars

I enjoyed this book. It gave a good description of poisons categorized by chapter. Each chapter explained a poison, it's inception to the medical and or scientific world, where it could be found and how potent it was. Then explained how the poison effected the body, either by injection, ingestion or inhalation. Summing up each poison with a parable where the poison was used for murder.

This book also pulled in facts and stories of others - like Dr Cream from The Case of the Murderous Dr. ...more

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Feb 06, 2023 Mandy rated it it was amazing

Fantastic read. A great mix of fact and true story. Medical information and true crime. An easy read for a non fiction. 4.5 stars rounded up.

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Jan 16, 2023 Lynn G. rated it really liked it

Shelves: history, bound-together-selections, library-book, non-fiction, science, health, crime, medicine, books-read-in-2023

The initial pages of this book had me wondering if reading it would be like a boring high school lecture in chemistry class. But, much to my relief, the science took a back seat to the interesting stories about how perpetrators managed to poison their victims.

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Dec 17, 2023 Hettie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: format-audiobook, from-library, read-2023

Really interesting book on the history of potions and details of 11 different poisons. I love the mixture of historical cases, current cases (all the way up to the Salisbury poisonings!) and physiological details of exactly how they work. It was a great balance with lots of interesting cases but not so much detail that it got bogged down.
I also really liked the alternative perspective of how many of the potions are being used for positive outcomes now as well.

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