On occasion www.kerriansnotebook.com crosses into the Nightstand Book Reviews realm. Many of you have shown a great interest in the various poisons used as a method of dispatching the victim(s) on the Kerrian’s Notebook site, so I thought you might like to have a list of 30 books with poison as the primary cause of death here on NBR. The authors and their fans provided the titles. The books were written/published after 2015, so there are no classics in the list, just relatively new ones to add to your TBR pile. Any post-2015 titles missing? Let us know in the comments below.
Listed in alphabetical order by author, the list also includes links to the book 'buy' pages. Click on the titles to find out more.
Mary Angela “An Act of Murder”
Juliet Blackwell “Toxic Trousseau”
Laura Bradford “The Silence of the Flans”
Becky Clark “Fiction can be Murder”
Brenda Donelan “Murder to Go”
Jan Edwards “In Her Defense”
Amanda Flower "Toxic Coffee"
Maggie Foster “The Arms of Death”
Daryl Wood Gerber “Wreath Between the Lines”
Debra H. Goldstein “One Taste Too Many”
John Hazen “Zyklon”
Katherine Bolger Hyde “Arsenic with Austen” and “Cyanide with Christie”
Maureen Klovers “The Secret Poison Garden”
Jim & Joyce Lavene “Killing Weeds”
Meg London “Laced with Poison”
Edith Maxwell “Mulch Ado About Murder,” “Murder Most Fowl,” and “Farmed and Dangerous.”
Donna Blanchard McNicol “Barely a Spark”
Britni Patterson “A Thousand Deadly Kisses”
Alec Peche “Murder at The Podium,” and “Crescent City Murder”
Karen Pullen “Cold Feet”
Nancy Cole Silverman “Shadow of Doubt”
Fran Stewart “Pink as a Peony”
Joyce Tremel “Tangled Up in Brew”
Kathleen Valenti "As Directed"
Nancy G. West "River City Dead," and "The Plunge."
Have fun choosing several books from this wickedly entertaining list! 🙂
In River City Dead (January 2017) two people enjoying Fiesta on the San Antonio River Walk are dispatched by a unique method of poisoning in a hotel. Purely fictional, of course. River Walk hotels are wonderful!
In The Plunge (October 2018), 1st in the new spinnof series, Aggie Mundeen LAKE Mysteries, the killer attempts to silence the victim with a common drug, which given to a person who doesn't need it, proves fatal.
Ooooo! Thanks for letting us know, Nancy. I’m adding your titles to the list. 🙂
Thank you for putting IHD on the list – it wil be out on 4th April 🙂
Great! Thanks for letting us know, Jan. 🙂