I can't remember where I heard about this book but it looked interesting. And it sort of was. It's a microhistory about arsenic and how forensic science was formed to determine whether someone had been poisoned. The whole story is framed around the poisonings of the Bodle family.The beginning started off well with a narrative history of when the Bodle family became ill. The story was interesting and it was a nice introduction to the topic. But the middle got bogged down a bit as the science part was introduced and the pacing of the story changed and then the switching back and forth between the story of the family and the story of the science kept up the different pacing.
Three stars
This book came out November 3rd, 2014
Borrowed this from the library
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