Kate Khavari

La recién nombrada ayudante de investigación Saffron Everleigh está decidida a abrirse paso en el Departamento de Botánica de la University College de Londres. Sabe que el camino no será fácil, pero

Aunque analizar intoxicaciones accidentales no es lo más trepidante para la perspicaz botánica Everleigh Saffron es mucho mejor que limitarse a tomar té en un salón. Pero cuando el inspector Green solicita su ayuda para un caso de Homicidios, todo cambia de rumboPor el momento hay dos victimas: ambas son mujeres y han recibido un ramo de flores. Salta a la vista que son venenosas, pero Saffron descubre que, ademas, podrian esconder un mensaje oculto que solo los conocedores de la floriografia pueden descifrar. Con la ayuda del doctor Lee y su mejor amiga Elizabeth, Saffron seguira la pista de un grupo de sospechosos por lugubres clubes de jazz, mansiones en el campo y majestuosos teatros.

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh faces her hardest challenge yet when she returns to her childhood home in the fourth book in the charming Saffron Everleigh mystery series. A cleverly plotted puzzle (Ashley Weaver) in the vein of Opium and Absinthe, this is perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Sujata Massey.Saffron Everleigh returns to Ellington Manor after her grandfather suffers a heart attack. Back in her childhood home for the first time in years, Saffron faces tense family relationships made worse by the presence of the enigmatic Bill Wyatt, hired on as a doctor to the ailing Lord Easting. But the man is no doctorin reality, he is a mysterious figure involved in the trafficking of dangerous government secrets, and his presence at Ellington can only mean trouble.When their neighbors, the Hales, invite a spiritual medium into the village who starts angling for Saffrons mothers attention, Saffron realizes that there is more afoot in her hometown than she originally thought. Not to mention inviting Alexander to Ellington has put their budding relationship under her familys microscope.As tensions rise at Ellington, Bill demands that Saffron hand over old research documents belonging to her late father. With her relatives under his power as their doctor, Saffron fears she may be forced to surrender the files along with her hopes of ever understanding her fathers obscure legacy. Nothing and no one is as they seem at Ellington. Its through the perfumed haze of the seances smoke that Saffron must search for the truth before its too late.

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh is ready for her next thrilling adventure in the newest installment of Kate Khavaris mesmerizing historical mystery series. A cleverly plotted puzzle (Ashley Weaver) in the vein of Opium and Absinthe, this is perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Sujata Massey.London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashtons brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder. A Russian scientist working for the English government has been poisoned, and expired in Adrians train compartment. Alexander asks Saffron to put in a good word for Adrian with Inspector Green. Despite her unresolved feelings for Alexander, Saffron begins to unravel mysteries surrounding the dead scientist.As if a murder case werent enough, her best friend Elizabeths war-hero brother, Nick, arrives in town and takes an immediate interest in Saffron. Saffron learns Alexander has been keeping secrets from her, including a connection to Nick, who Saffron and Elizabeth begin to suspect is more than he seems.When another scientist is found dead, Saffron agrees to go undercover at the government laboratory. Risking her career and her safety, she learns there are many more interested parties and dangerous secrets to uncover than shed realized. But some secrets, Saffron will find, are better left undiscovered.

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh is back and ready for adventure in Kate Khavaris next mesmerizing historical mystery. A cleverly plotted puzzle (Ashley Weaver) in the vein of Opium and Absinthe, this second installment is perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Sujata Massey.1920s London isnt the ideal place for a brilliant woman with lofty ambitions. But research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to beat the odds in a male-dominated field at the University College of London. Saffron embarks on her first research study alongside the insufferably charming Dr. Michael Lee, traveling the countryside with him in response to reports of poisonings. But when Detective Inspector Green is given a case with a set of unusual clues, he asks for Saffrons assistance.The victims, all women, received bouquets filled with poisonous flowers. Digging deeper, Saffron discovers that the bouquets may be more than just unpleasant flowers there may be a hidden message within them, revealed through the use of the old Victorian practice of floriography. A dire message, indeed, as each woman who received the flowers has turned up dead.Alongside Dr. Lee and her best friend, Elizabeth, Saffron trails a group of suspects through a dark jazz club, a lavish country estate, and a glittering theatre, delving deeper into a part of society she thought shed left behind forever.Will Saffron be able to catch the killer before they send their next bouquet, or will she find herself with fatal flowers of her own in Kate Khavaris second intoxicating installment.

The Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, STEMinist historical mystery set during Londons Roaring Twenties!Gives us a gutsy ingenious heroine, academic intrigue, a scientifically suspenseful mystery and a Christie-like cast of characters. M. L. Huie, author of the Livy Nash mysteries London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues beliefs about womens academic inabilities and not so subtle hints that her deceased fathers reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn.When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the universitys large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesnt expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors wives, to drop to the floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin. Dr. Maxwell, Saffrons mentor, is the main suspect and evidence quickly mounts. Joined by fellow researcherand potential romantic interestAlexander Ashton, Saffron uses her knowledge of botany as she explores steamy greenhouses, dark gardens, and deadly poisons to clear Maxwells name.Will she be able to uncover the truthor will her investigation land her on the murderers list?in this entertaining historical mystery about the struggles of one unforgettable woman in a male-dominated field.

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh has set sail on her first research expedition, but its disrupted by accusations of murder when one of her fellow scientists is murdered in this daring fifth installment.Saffron Everleigh is newly engaged and full of optimism as she sets off on the adventure of a lifetime for any scientist: a research expedition. She sails to newly formed Turkey with her fiance, Alexander Ashton, and a bevy of fellow researchers under the watchful and reformed eye of Dr. Henry. With only two other women on board, Saffron soon finds she is right back in the same infuriatingly misogynistic environment that marked the earliest days of her career. Only this time, Saffron is determined to show everyone, including Alexander, that she can handle the trials of an expedition.And trials she has in spades. Before the expedition team has even arrived, Saffron has managed to find an enemy in historian Joseph Clark, who frequently torments the assistant that Saffron has taken under her wing, Martin Neill. But when Martin unexpectedly dies, Saffron is targeted as the main suspect.Falling ruins, venomous snakes, and mysteriously blocked passages are the least of Saffrons worries. With unexpected help from a familiar face, Alexander and Saffron have to work fast to prove not only that Saffron is innocent but that they both have nothing to do with a larger conspiracy at play among the expedition crew.