A Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury, Ph.D.

 Have you ever wanted to scare strangers or even your friends with your oddly specific knowledge of poisons and their medicinal applications? Then this a book for you. This book focuses on eleven types of poisons and the author really manages to make the technical side of using these poisons just as interesting as the stories he tells  of the people who used them. 

The stories that are included in this book are truly interesting and showcase just how these would-be killers; some who succeeded and a few who didn't; decided to go about on their murderous urges. 

This book also showcased just how different it was years ago to not only commit murder and be reasonably sure that you could get away with it, but also to investigate such murders and not be able to complete the investigation due to the limits of the time. However, this also brought about some incredible advancements in the field of police and forensic investigation and even in the medical field. 

I absolutely recommend this book to anyone interesting in true crime, poisons or even about the advancements that these crimes brought about in the field of forensic science. 

This book will be released in February of 2022

I received this book free from NetGalley and Macmillian Audio to review and this is my honest review. 

Five out of five stars.