THE PERFECT POISON

Book ID/图书代码： 12730009B34214

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Chinese Summary/中文概要： NEW YORK TIMES Best Seller 系列書
ㄧ部揭開維多利亞女王時代神秘面紗的小說—
在維多利亞女皇時代的倫敦，潛藏著許許多多的神秘與未知。
想ㄧ窺究竟，你不可不讀--

露辛達擁有天賦異稟的超自然能力，能辨認各種各樣的毒藥；謠言四處蔓延，人們認為她毒殺了她的未婚夫。
為了找到兇手並替自己洗刷冤名，露辛達聘用研究員奧會的成員凱萊布瓊斯，一同展開一連串的調查。而在此時，英王的死亡卻提供給她ㄧ個新的線索。在謀殺現場，她撿拾遺留下的毒藥蹤跡，發現其中含有一種非常罕見的種蕨類。此種蕨類甚為稀少，在英格蘭僅有一種標本，那也正是上個月才從她的溫室中被盜走的。
凱萊布與露辛達兩人，各自背負著一個強烈願望，他們捲入了可怕的致命陰謀中心。故事可追溯到早期的奧會模式，對遺產的狂熱一步步侵蝕著凱萊布內心深處最痛苦的地帶…(SL)

Awards/获奖情况："The Perfect Poison" is a perfect delight.---Amanda Quick’s readers.

"Amanda Quick . . . deftly distills intrigue, romance, and a dash of the paranormal." ---Chicago Tribune

Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) delivers her reliable blend of sex and suspense in her latest Arcane Society novel. In Victorian London, spinster botanist and psychic Lucinda Bromley meets her match in Caleb Jones, a member of the Arcane Society and descendant of an alchemist family that makes him the stuff of myth and legend. Together, this paranormal pair of snoops sets out to track down a thief who made off with a dangerous plant implicated in the death of a wealthy lord, but wind up uncovering a sinister secret order. Quick invents two dazzling 19th-century sleuths who combine paranormal prowess and raw sexual heat. But if they excel at fooling Mother Nature, it’s their all too human nature that brings this uncommon Victorian duo to life. (Apr.)---From Publishers Weekly

If Lucinda Bromley doesn’t discover who stole her fern, she could end up being charged with murder. Lucinda frequently used her unusual psychic gift to discern death by poisoning to help the London police, but when a nobleman is poisoned by a compound containing elements of a rare fern, one that can only be found in her conservatory, Lucinda knows she better act quickly. To help her find the real murderer, she hires Caleb Jones, a “psychical investigator.” Believing there is a connection between Lucinda’s fern thief and a deadly dangerous secret society, Caleb agrees to take the case, but he never expected to become so distracted by his new partner in detection or to find himself flummoxed on so many fronts. New York Times best-seller Quick delivers another fascinating addition to her original and spellbinding Victorian-era series about the Arcane Society, a 200-year-old secret organization founded by an alchemist and devoted to paranormal research. Once again, Quick (one of Jayne Ann Krentz’s alternative identities) expertly, even magically, dispenses delectably witty dialogue, simmering sexual chemistry, and a plot laced with secrets, dangers, and surprises. --John Charles, From Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： With a string of bestselling Regency and Victorian Era romantic-suspense novels under her pen, AMANDA QUICK entered the world of a highly secretive paranormal group, the ARCANE SOCIETY, with her novel SECOND SIGHT. The series moved into a contemporary setting when JAYNE ANN KRENTZ (Amanda’s contemporary alter-ego) released the second book in the series, WHITE LIES.
Amanda’s ARCANE SOCIETY SERIES Book 6, THE PERFECT POISON, was released this spring and went straight onto the NEW YORK TIMES Best Seller List..
This winter, the ARCANE SOCIETY continues with THE DREAMLIGHT TRILOGY. It will cross over into all three of Jayne’s worlds and features the descendants of the ARCANE SOCIETY founder’s arch-rival. It all starts with FIRED UP by Jayne Ann Krentz.

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