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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A moving and gripping story of love, denial, and a daughter's quest for the truth. Caitriona Palmer had a happy childhood in Dublin, raised by loving adoptive parents. But when she was in her late twenties, she realised that she had a strong need to know the woman who had given birth to her. She was able to locate her birth mother, Sarah, and they developed a strong attachment. But Sarah set one painful condition to this joyous new relationship: she...
Author
Publisher
Duckworth Overlook
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The greatest villain who ever stood trial at the Old Bailey, as Charles Dickens described him, William Palmer was convicted in 1856 of murdering his best friend, but was suspected of poisoning more than a dozen other people, including his wife and children. He was a new kind of murderer: respectable, middle class, and consequently more terrifying, Britain's most infamous figure until Jack the Ripper. 'The Poisoner' takes the reader into the very psyche...
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