POISON FLOWERS

by Natasha Cooper ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1992

Colorless, efficient civil servant Willow King, who moonlights as sybaritic romance, novelist Cressida Woodruffe (A Common Death, 1990), takes a fancy to solving a series of murders described to her by inamorata Inspector Tom Worth: poisonings by different vegetable toxins of four victims--a Fulham architect and his girlfriend; a schoolmistress retired to Newcastle; and an actress in Islington--who seem to have nothing in common. Calling on her network of well-connected friends, Willow soon finds the common denominator: patent attorney Caroline Titchmell, the architect's younger sister, who knew all four victims. Unable to see gentle Caroline as the killer, Willow labors to solve the puzzle before the obvious culprit succeeds in poisoning her or running her down with a car. The mystery is conscientiously spun out, but the trappings and tone--cozy, humorless, oozing with self-approbation--are redolent of Cressida's romances. For like-minded readers.

Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1992

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 304

Publisher: Crown

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1991

Categories: FICTION