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A good while back I read a book called The Apothecary Rose by Candace Robb, as I read this book I kept thinking, Have I read this already? It’s not the same exactly but we do have a female apothecary helping find a murderer with the help of a possible love interest in both.Kathryn Swinbourne is a ‘doctor’ or apothecary in Canterbury towards the end of the War of the Roses. Someone is poisoning random pilgrims visiting the shrine of Thomas a Beckett. She is called in to help investigate as it is felt only another apothecary would have such knowledge of poisons therefore she can help find him (it is a him so we don’t have to go through her being suspected too).She has a feisty thrice married maid and confident, Thomasina and the help, wanted or otherwise, of the new king’s head of stables, Irishman Colum Murtagh.All main characters have their own sad, worrisome secrets even the funny and foul-mouthed Thomasina.I found the story enjoyable enough though not particularly riveting.
