Noxious plants, potent medicines, toxic household chemicals.
Harmless if handled with care.
Fatal if not.

Innocent, ordinary substances can have lethal potential in the hands of those seeking revenge or motivated by greed, misguided altruism or self-protection. Why is poison the choice of the calculated killer? What can go wrong? Poison may seem to offer the perfect murder, but even the best laid plans...

In this thrilling kaleidoscope of short stories written by critically acclaimed crime fiction writer and poison expert, Brian Price, you will enter the dark recesses of a poisoner’s imagination. You’ll wish you hadn’t had that coffee before heading up the motorway.