A Beautiful Poison

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Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza ripples through the city But with so many victims in her close circle, young socialite Allene questions if the flu is really to blame All appear to have been poisoned and every death was accompanied by a mysterious note.Desperate for answers and dreading her own engagement to a wealthy gentleman, Allene returns to her passion for scientific discovery and recruits her long lost friends, Jasper and Birdie, for help The investigation brings her closer to Jasper, an apprentice medical examiner at Bellevue Hospital who still holds her heart, and offers the delicate Birdie a last ditch chance to find a safe haven before her fragile health fails.As of their friends and family die, alliances shift, lives become entangled, and the three begin to suspect everyone even each other As they race to find the culprit, Allene, Birdie, and Jasper must once again trust each other, before one of them becomes the next victim. Free Read Books A Beautiful Poison by Lydia Kang – kino-fada.fr 3.5 The Gilded Age, Manhattan 191, the night of Allene s engagement party, and things have taken a horrible turn A young woman is found dead, at the bottom of the stairs, a woman many did not like Was it an accident as it appears on murder The police think accident, a decision aided by Allene s father, who wants only to avoid a scandal.When they were younger Jasper, Birdie and Allene had been inseparable, great friends who shared in all kinds of adventures Now at eighteen things are very dif 3.5 The Gilded Age, Manhattan 191, the night of Allene s engagement party, and things have taken a horrible turn A young woman is found dead, at the bottom of the stairs, a woman many did not like Was it an accident as it appears on murder The police think accident, a decision aided by Allene s father, who wants only to avoid a scandal.When they were younger Jasper, Birdie and Allene had been inseparable, great friends who shared in all kinds of adventures Now at eighteen things are very different, their lives taking different paths They will however, join together to solve this mystery, convinced there is poison involved in the death Allene has a fierce love of chemistry, Birdie working at a radium dial painting factory this is years before it was known ju...Lies come so easily whether you are rich or you are poor Not even a penny for your thoughts But, eventually, you may pay with your lifeManhattan seems to dazzle at the elegant Cutter mansion here in 1918 Allene Cutter and her fiance, Andrew Smythe Biddle, are celebrating their engagement in New York style Long time friends Birdie Dreyer, Jasper Jones, and Ernie Fielding surround the young couple and champagne glasses are held high But the laughter is quickly drowned out by a tumble an Lies come so easily whether you are rich or you are poor Not even a penny for your thoughts But, eventually, you may pay with your lifeManhattan seems to dazzle at the elegant Cutter mansion here in 1918 Allene Cutter and her fiance, Andrew Smythe Biddle, are celebrating their engagement in New York style Long time frien...This was a slow building murder mystery with a heavy theme in the sciences With a count of about seven or eight characters introduced within the first few pages of the book, I had to put this one down and pick it up at another point when I could really concentrate A fellow reviewer recommended taking notes, which I definite...I do love a good mystery Lydia Kang s A Beautiful Poison takes place in 1918 Incorporated into the story are interesting historical elements such as the beginnings of forensic medicine, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and factories employing women t...This is a beautifully written book that makes no sense I m not quite sure how to rate it I really enjoyed my first read through I liked the author s writing style and found her imagery very lovely The story takes place in an interesting era, and as a historical fiction, I think it s quite an enjoyable read And when I got to the twist at the end, my first reaction was positive It was interesting and dramatic and not an outcome I had been anticipating So then I reread the whole book it s a This is a beautifully written book that makes no sense I m not quite sure how to rate it I really enjoyed my first read through I liked the author s writing style and found her imagery very lovely The story takes place in an interesting era, and as a historical fiction, I think it s quite an enjoyable read And when I got to the twist at the end, my first reaction was positive It was interesting and dramatic and not an outcome I had been anticipating So then I reread the whole book it s a pretty quick read And the reason I hadn t anticipated the twist was because it really does not make sense with the way the story is told SPOILERS I won t give character names, but you could probably...All the poisons This was interesting I felt the book wasn t quite sure what it wanted to be a mystery A convoluted love story A story of friendship I did not find the main trio of characters likeable a trio once friends in childhood and reunited at an engagement party There follow a string of deaths which unite the three in trying to solve the mur...I think that this book was a bit all over the place for me to get a very good handle on We have a lot of characters whose motivations we are not too sure of throughout the book I think that Kang was trying for some tension to build about who was the murderer, but it was telegraphed at least to me pretty early about who was doing what I will say that I was a surprised by the ending I thought for sure that two of the characters were being set up to run away together, so that was a pleasant sur I think that this book was a bit all over the place for me to get a very good handle on We have a lot of characters whose motivations we are not too sure of throughout the book I think that Kang was trying for some tension to build about who was the murderer, but it was telegraphed at least to me pretty early about who was doing what I will say that I was a surprised by the ending I thought for sure that two of the characters were being set up to run away together, so...A BEAUTIFUL POISONMy Kindle First pick for July, I normally do not read historical fiction but the other choices did not interest me at all This book was interesting and entertaining.There is an odd trio of friends trying to solve some suspicious deaths of friends and relatives, this is all occurring during the great flu epidemic The book reflects the time period, where woman were discouraged from scientific pursuits but Allene forges ahead The ending was quite surprising Overall, a very A BEAUTIFUL POISONMy Kindle First pick for July, I normally do not read historical fiction but the other choices did not interest me at all This book was interesting and entertaining.There is an odd trio of friends trying to solve some suspicious deaths of friends and relatives, this is all occurring during the great flu epidemic The book reflects the time period, where woman were discouraged from scientific pursuits but Allene forges a...I kept waiting for the pace of A Beautiful Poison to slow down and get boring, and it never did oblige me I have this unreasonable unsubstantiated expectation that historical fiction slow and quiet, but this book was NOT that Mayhap I should rethink my assumptions Lydia Kang has plucked from history the perfect setting for a murder mystery 1918 New York City, during the influenza pandemic Because what better way to cover up the fact that you re poisoning a bunch of people than to do it I kept waiting for the pace of A Beautiful Poison to slow down and get boring, and it never did oblige me I have this unreasonable unsubstantiated expectation that historical fiction slow and quiet, but this book was NOT that Mayhap I should rethink my assumptions Lydia Kang has plucked from history the perfect setting for a murder mystery 1918 New York City, during the influenza pandemic Because what better way to cover up the fact that you re poisoning a bunch of people than to do it when people are dropping like flies already Allene, a wealthy socialite, notices that people connected to her and her two childhood friends, Jasper and Birdie, keep turning up dead under mysterious circumstances Th...I m rounding this book up from a 3.5 star rating to a 4 because it s definitely better than my standard 3 star rating but not quite a 4 Overall, I did really enjoy this book I felt like it wasthan the routine mass market murder mystery and I definitely was kept in suspense and didn t guess the murderer at all In fact, I probabl...

A Beautiful Poison
  • 06 August 2017
  • Paperback
  • 350 pages
  • 1477848878
  • Lydia Kang
  • A Beautiful Poison