The Poisoned Book Club

She labeled everything in green. So why is this tin labeled in black?

Hazel Merritt, 68, formidable widow and Thursday Book Club member, is writing a tell-all memoir about Willow Bend's old families. After a Thursday meeting at The Book Nook, she goes home, makes her own comfrey-mint tea — and never gets up from her kitchen table. Toxicology finds digitalis. Foxglove. And in Hazel's garden, foxglove and comfrey grow three feet apart.

Inside:

• A cozy mystery in Willow Bend

• Hazel Merritt and the Thursday Book Club

• The Book Nook, Molly Hart's bookshop at 214 Main Street

• A tell-all memoir and sixty years of town secrets

• The Book Nook Mysteries, Book 2, in a 91-page PDF

One cup of tea, two look-alike plants — and a town full of secrets worth killing for.