A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

Kate Khavari

eBook - 2022

The Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, ‘STEMinist’ historical mystery set during London’s Roaring Twenties!“Gives us a gutsy ingenious heroine, academic intrigue, a scientifically suspenseful mystery and a Christie-like cast of characters.” —M. L. Huie, author of the Livy Nash mysteries London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues’ beliefs about women’s academic inabilities and not so subtle hints that her deceased father’s reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn.When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversatio...ns about the university's large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesn’t expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors’ wives, to drop to the... more