Book one of the True Crime Verdict Files. Twelve poisoners. Twelve verdicts.

Poisoning is the most patient form of murder. It takes no strength and no weapon — only proximity, and the willingness to betray it. Every poisoner in this book was trusted by the people they killed. That trust was the real weapon. The poison was just the instrument.

Across twelve meticulously researched cases — spanning 130 years, four countries and seven poisons — Cheryl Warren examines the men and women who stirred death into a cup of tea, folded it into a pastry, or hid it in a vitamin, then sat at the bedside playing the devoted wife, the doting nurse, the grieving mother.

Drawn from court records, trial transcripts, forensic reports and contemporaneous reporting, these are the stories stripped of sensation and told straight — because the facts are devastating enough.

Poisoners is the first volume in the True Crime Verdict Files — an anthology series, with each book examining twelve cases around a single theme, drawn from across the world and throughout history.

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