The Poison Tree Elizabeth Kay Subversive blues-haunted private investigator Quintilian

Subversive blues-haunted private investigator Quintilian Dalrymple and his side-kick Davie try to solve a series of murders in which tapes of music

and will lay everything on the line to protect her

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threatened on all sides

I cried a few times too

The Poison Tree Elizabeth Kay Subversive blues-haunted private investigator QuintilianI have given up so much and done so many terrible things already for the sake of my family that I can only keep going. I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened, but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to lose. In the sweltering summer of 1997, strait laced, straight A student Karen met Biba a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. She was quickly drawn into Biba's world, and for a while