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Discuss A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari with other mystery lovers in Conference Room 1.
Do you love mysteries with plucky protagonists and quirky casts? Want to talk about them over tea and snacks? Welcome to our newest book club, which focuses on cozy reads!
Place a hold on this month's book, A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari, or pick up a copy at Southwest Library.
The Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, STEMinist adventure.
Debut author Kate Khavari deftly entwines a pulse-pounding mystery with the struggles of a woman in a male-dominated field in 1923 London.
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 conversations 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 floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin.
Dr. Maxwell, Saffron’s mentor, is the main suspect and evidence quickly mounts. Joined by fellow researcher – and potential romantic interest – Alexander Ashton, Saffron uses her knowledge of botany as she explores steamy greenhouses, dark gardens, and deadly poisons to clear Maxwell’s name.
Will she be able to uncover the truth or will her investigation land her on the murderer’s list, in this entertaining examination of society’s expectations?
Please register so we know how many folks to expect, and so you can be added to the Cozy Book Club email list to find out next month's selection.
