The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner - 2021

Toronto/New York: Park Row Books, 2021. SIGNED. NF/F. Purchased New. 1st/1st. First Edition. First printing with no additional printings listed. Signed by Sarah Penner on the half-title page in gold ink. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Mild crease to spine tail. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 320 pages. 6 x 9¼" tall.

A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost Apothecary.

Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries.

Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary's in a stunning twist of fate—and not everyone will survive.