Another amazing ride with Eustacia Rose, professor of botanical toxicology. After the events of the first book Eustacia is easing back into her life, teaching at UCL.

When a body is found dead with a needle in it's neck; a possible poisoning, Eustacia is called on again for her help.

A student at work is also threatening to disturb her new found rhythm, and ignoring him is becoming more difficult as time goes on.

I cannot get enough of Eustacia's no nonsense attitude, bluntness and eccentricity, she was hilarious at times without meaning to be.

"𝓝𝓸, 𝓷𝓸, 𝓷𝓸," 𝓘 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓼 𝓘 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓭 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓻. "𝓘𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓸𝓷 𝔀𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪 𝓵𝓪𝓫 𝓬𝓸𝓪𝓽, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝔀𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓲𝓽 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓵𝔂. 𝓘𝓽'𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓿𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓼𝓪𝓯𝓮𝓽𝔂; 𝓲𝓽'𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓪 𝓯𝓪𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓶."

She hyper fixates on things and refuses to bend to the whims of others, and her meticulous way of figuring things out is so interesting to read. She's an amazing main character and one you kept help fall in love with.

I enjoyed the plant nicknames she gives people upon first meeting them, they're very true to the mark and also hilarious.

I loved that we see Eustacia build more relationships in this book, especially to see this continue with DCI Roberts. The twists and turns kept me guessing once again and the writing was so engaging, I couldn't put it down.