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Don’t miss Deborah’s #1 Amazon Kindle best-selling single, Angel Killer, a true story of a cannibal killer who stalked New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. Published by The Atavist, this is a tale of a killer who knew how to stay invisible, a detective who wouldn’t give up, and a trial that shocked the country.  

As the Wisconsin State Journal put it: “She steps into the mind of a madman and raises more than a few disturbing ethical questions, along with the fine hairs on the reader’s neck.” Read more

Find it here at The Atavist website.
 

Learn more about The Poisoner’s Handbook, a New York Times paperback best seller:

The New York Times: “The Poisoner’s Handbook is an inventive history that, like arsenic mixed into blackberry pie, goes down with ease.”

The Washington Post: Not only is "The Poisoner's Handbook" as thrilling as any "CSI" episode, but it also offers something even better: an education in how forensics really works. (more)

The Dallas Morning News: In this bubbling beaker of a book, she mixes up a heady potion of forensic toxicology, history and true crime. Her account of the ongoing battle between scientists and killers in Jazz Age New York is more startling than any CSI: NY script. (more)

BookPage: The Poisoner’s Handbook is that rare nonfiction book that has something for everyone, whether you are a true-crime aficionado, a political-history buff, a science geek or simply a fan of well-written narrative suspense. (more
 
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Listen to author Deborah Blum talk about poisons on NPR’s Talk of the Nation/ Science Friday


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