A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons affect the body - through the murders in which they were used.
As any listener or reader of murder …
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