A Pocketful of Poisons
Noxious plants, potent medicines, toxic household chemicals.
Harmless if handled with care.
Fatal if not.
Innocent, ordinary substances can have lethal potential in the hands of those seeking revenge or motivated by greed, misguided altruism or self-protection. Why is poison the choice of the calculated killer? What can go wrong? Poison may seem to offer the perfect murder, but even the best laid plans…
In this thrilling kaleidoscope of short stories written by critically acclaimed crime fiction writer and poison expert, Brian Price, you will enter the dark recesses of a poisoner’s imagination. You’ll wish you hadn’t had that coffee before heading up the motorway.
Brian Price
Brian Price is the author of the DC Mel Cotton series and the guide for authors Crime writing: how to write the science. He is a chemist and a biologist by training and has worked for the NHS analysing medicines, for the Environment Agency in a variety of roles, and was an Open University tutor for 26 years. He advises other crime writers on the scientific aspects of their work and lives in the West of England, overlooking a cemetery. He is married and has four grown-up children.
