{"product_id":"the-poisoners-garden-helen-ashford-9798241364647","title":"The Poisoner's Garden: Restoration Apothecary: A Hale \u0026 Moreau Mystery - Book 1","description":"London, 1668. The monarchy has been restored-but the city is still rebuilding its soul.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Hale is an anomaly in Restoration England: an independent, guild-recognized apothecary and botanist who rebuilt her Cheapside shop after the Great Fire and answers to no patron but her own discipline. Her knowledge is precise, dangerous, and carefully contained-recorded in a physick book she guards as fiercely as her glasshouse of poisonous plants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eÉtienne Moreau moves in a different world. A French physician trained on the Continent and bound by loyalty to Charles II, he occupies an uneasy place at Whitehall-valued, watched, and never entirely safe. When two palace servants die under suspicious circumstances, Étienne is quietly tasked with discovering the truth without disturbing the fragile order of Court life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe investigation leads him beyond royal walls and into Margaret Hale's domain, where poison is studied rather than denied and dangerous knowledge is preserved instead of erased. As evidence points to a deadly plant cultivated within the Palace gardens themselves, Margaret and Étienne form an uneasy professional alliance-one built on restraint, mutual respect, and the shared understanding that truth is often more threatening than any crime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the political intrigues of Charles II's court, the religious tensions of post-Civil War England, and a world poised between medieval alchemy and the emerging Age of Enlightenment, \u003ci\u003eThe Poisoner's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e is a quiet, intelligent historical mystery about power, knowledge, and the cost of remembering. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJustice here is not decided by law-but by who controls the story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis first novel in the \u003cb\u003eRestoration Apothecary: A Hale \u0026amp; Moreau Mystery\u003c\/b\u003e series introduces a partnership defined not by romance or oath, but by careful witness-and a garden where the most dangerous truths are kept alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Ashford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798241364647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d","brand":"Helen Ashford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447241158911,"sku":"9798241364647","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_abf93b91-aff7-4465-ae58-f2378a890179.jpg?v=1777229790","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-poisoners-garden-helen-ashford-9798241364647","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}