☰

Literature & Fiction

Beloved Poison: A Novel

Not Available / Digital Item

Beloved Poison: A Novel

Set in a crumbling 1850s London infirmary, a richly atmospheric Victorian crime novel where murder is the price to be paid for secrets kept.

Ramshackle and crumbling, trapped in the past and resisting the future, St. Saviourâ€™s Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors, the doctors bicker and backstab. Ambition, jealousy, and loathing seethe beneath the veneer of professional courtesy. Always an outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide, apothecary Jem Flockhart observes everything but says nothing.

And then six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of mouldering rags. When Jem comes across these strange relics hidden inside the infirmaryâ€™s old chapel, her quest to understand their meaning prises open a long-forgotten pastâ€”with fatal consequences.

In a trail that leads from the bloody world of the operating room and the dissecting table to the notorious squalor of Newgate Prison and the gallows, Jemâ€™s adversary proves to be both powerful and ruthless. As St. Saviourâ€™s destruction draws near, the dead are unearthed from their graves while the living are forced to make impossible choices. And murder is the price to be paid for the secrets to be kept.

Country	USA
Author	E. S. Thomson
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781681772684
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Pegasus Books
Manufacturer	Pegasus Books
NumberOfPages	394
PublicationDate	2016-09-13
Publisher	Pegasus Books
ReleaseDate	2016-09-13
Studio	Pegasus Books

You might also like...