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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 37,856 ratings — published 2010
Poison Study (Study, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.08 — 177,823 ratings — published 2005
Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.45 — 617 ratings — published 2004
The Lost Apothecary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.76 — 514,038 ratings — published 2021
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,972 ratings — published 2022
A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.52 — 23,777 ratings — published 2022
Poison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,607 ratings — published 2013
The Poison Diaries (The Poison Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,922 ratings — published 2010
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,304 ratings — published 2009
Hemlock & Silver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.02 — 36,697 ratings — published 2025
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.00 — 524,185 ratings — published 1920
Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.79 — 119,190 ratings — published 2016
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.99 — 59,523 ratings — published 2010
Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,018 ratings — published 1945
Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.89 — 108,158 ratings — published 2012
It's True! You Eat Poison Every Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2006
Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics, and History (Revised)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.82 — 34 ratings — published 1989
Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,037 ratings — published 2023
Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World's Most Poisonous Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.33 — 190 ratings — published 2018
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,672,527 ratings — published 1939
An Affair of Poisons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,174 ratings — published 2019
One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.02 — 64,774 ratings — published 2017
A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce #3)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 4.05 — 47,340 ratings — published 2011
Nightshade (The Poison Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as poisons)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,147 ratings — published 2011
A Suspicion of Serpents (Consulting Magic Book 5)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.58 — 52 ratings — published
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,506 ratings — published 2020
The Study of Poisons (The Chronicles of Ixia #1.1; The Study Chronicles: Valek's Adventures #1)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,393 ratings — published 2023
We Already Dug the Grave (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 160 ratings — published
Snow White (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,806 ratings — published 2016
Queer Quotes: On Coming Out and Culture, Love and Lust, Politics and Pride, and Much More (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.81 — 21 ratings — published 2004
Hazelthorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,598 ratings — published 2025
Shadow Study (Soulfinders, #1; Study, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,929 ratings — published 2015
The Geographer's Map to Romance (Love's Academic, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,380 ratings — published 2025
In Praise of Poison Ivy: The Secret Virtues, Astonishing History, and Dangerous Lore of the World's Most Hated Plant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.41 — 39 ratings — published 2016
Plants That Can Kill: 101 Toxic Species to Make You Think Twice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.82 — 97 ratings — published
Forget Me Not (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 75,062 ratings — published 2025
The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.80 — 544 ratings — published 2000
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,890 ratings — published 1929
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,312 ratings — published 2025
The Dose Makes the Poison: A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.00 — 36 ratings — published 1984
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.84 — 683,127 ratings — published 2025
Written in Stone (A Scottish Bookshop Mystery, 10)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,059 ratings — published 2025
Murder at Gulls Nest (Nora Breen Investigates, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,148 ratings — published 2025
Murder on the Cornish Coast (A Miss Underhay Mystery #19)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.35 — 837 ratings — published
Murder at the Orpheus Theatre (A Tate and Bell Mystery #4)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,542 ratings — published
Murder on the Menu (The Bad Girls Detective Agency #3)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 3.72 — 496 ratings — published
A Midwinter Murder (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery #20)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,273 ratings — published
The Heart's Choice (The Jewels of Kalispell, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,736 ratings — published 2023
The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow (The Guild Codex: Unveiled, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as poisons)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,700 ratings — published 2022
“For decades, chalk and alum have been added to bread, and burnt corn and peas ground up to make coffee. Vinegar is rendered sharper by the addition of sulphuric acid, arrowroot is added to milk to thicken it, mustard is eked out with flour, strychnine is added to beer for bitterness and green vitriol to encourage a foaming head. And these are but the harmless manipulations.”
― The Devil's Feast
― The Devil's Feast
“Good heavens!” I said. “Strychnine and vitriol in beer?”
“And in gin too. Enough to impart hallucinations and a nasty disruption of the bowels. And I have seen far worse: indianberry – very toxic – added to beer to make it more intoxicating. Custard flavoured with laurel – a mortal poison; pepper made from floor sweepings, comfits from china clay. Double Gloucester cheese coloured with red lead. Lead, copper, mercury, arsenic – deadly, all – they are everywhere. I myself can attest that lead salts taste quite delicious.”
― The Devil's Feast
“And in gin too. Enough to impart hallucinations and a nasty disruption of the bowels. And I have seen far worse: indianberry – very toxic – added to beer to make it more intoxicating. Custard flavoured with laurel – a mortal poison; pepper made from floor sweepings, comfits from china clay. Double Gloucester cheese coloured with red lead. Lead, copper, mercury, arsenic – deadly, all – they are everywhere. I myself can attest that lead salts taste quite delicious.”
― The Devil's Feast
