num_pages: 301
description: A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them - setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecarys register.One cold February evening in 1791 at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose - selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nellas world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register.In present-day London aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone reeling from the discovery of her husbands infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames she cant resist investigating only to realize shes found a link to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search Carolines life collides with Nellas and Elizas in a stunning twist of fate - and not everyone will survive.
language: English
title: The Lost Apothecary
publisher: Park Row