num_pages: 220
description: In an unusual departure, Sara Woods takes her latest suspense novel back in time to 1947, when Antony Maitland, recently discharged from service, is reading law at the farm of a friend in Yorkshire. But the anticipated pastoral quietude is blemished by four seemingly disparate occurrences—the growth of gossip concerning the revival of local witchcraft, rumors of a treasure of gold plate hidden and then lost during the seventeenth-century Civil War, suspicions of lucrative black market activity in the vicinity, and the death of a woman from arsenic poisoning on a nearby farm. Weaving these incidents together against the rustic background of the Yorkshire countryside in what certainly must be Antony Maitland’s first big case, Miss Woods tells a fascinating and entertaining story that will surely please her many fans.“They love not poison that do poison need,Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead,I hate the murderer, love him murdered.”—Richard II, Act V, scene vi
language: English
title: They Love Not Poison
titlecomplete: They Love Not Poison (Antony Maitland, #19)
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 24
places: England
series: Raven House Mysteries, Antony Maitland
publisher: Worldwide