Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary A woman is found dead

A woman is found dead in London in the 21st century where serial killing has reached epidemic proportions

and by the time I realise my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside

When his oldest and best friend is murdered

In the midst of this Bartholomew is called to examine two corpses

Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary A woman is found deadAugustus Gale was a man in love in love with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. This macabre devotion poisoned both his own life and the lives of those around him: his son and daughter, his beautiful second wife, and even his devoted mother. Yet it was a strictly confined obsession, and when a party of archaeologists sought permission to excavate a Roman mosaic pavement on Augustus's land, they were met with blunt and contemptuous