ACONITE Queen of Poisons: A Roaring '20s Murder Mystery

BASED ON A TRUE STORY - A Historical Mystery
   "Pick your poison! Aconite launches the adorable Dr. Josephine series... This trailblazing lady doc has her work cut out for her, even before she takes on the medical establishment and becomes a murder suspect...ACONITE Queen of Poisons captures the moment Allopathy (think Big Pharma) diverged from Homeopathy... an excellent romp with an entertaining cast of characters. The reader will be grateful that the talented doctor could take time out from her private practice to moonlight as a detective." Reader review (edited)
   
   BOOZE BLANKS? LADY DOCTORS? POISON CURES?
   
   It’s the Roaring 20’s New York, and a feisty orphan rises from the slums to become a doctor. Josephine Reva, M.D. is a trailblazing woman on a mission -- she's seeking equality in a male profession. When no Manhattan hospitals will hire her, she hangs out her shingle in faraway Brooklyn as the area’s first Lady Doctor.
   
   If that wasn't hard enough, Josephine soon faces more challenges. Prohibition forbids drinking, but a loophole allows doctors like her to prescribe “medicinal” booze, subsidized by the US Treasury. Patients flock to Josephine, but bootleggers put her on their radar.
   
   When an unexpected invitation arrives to join her male peers at a conference, Josephine is alarmed. Medicine is at a crossroads -- there's a battle waging between allopathy and homeopathy. Murder intrudes when a fellow doctor is found dead at the docks from Aconite, a purple flower known as the “Queen of Poisons.” Aconite is also a homeopathic remedy, and Josephine, a Homeopath and an MD, realizes she’s being framed.
   
   With help from her patients, the strong-willed but demure Josephine goes undercover as her alter-ego — a sexy Jazz Age flapper — to a speakeasy frequented by a cast of suspicious doctors, quacks and bootleggers. Complications arise when Josephine falls for a debonair suspect. Is he friend or foe?
   
   Can Josephine unmask the murderer? Will she renounce her paradoxical poison cures?
   Can Josephine unravel her own secrets to follow her heart and her ambition?
   
   Dr. Josephine Plantæ Paradoxes, a riveting new series by L.M. Jorden.
   1- Aconite, Queen of Poisons - Roaring 20’s Murder Mystery
   2- Belladonna, Bitter Conduct - 1930’s Opera Murder (2022)
   3- Chinchona, Coney Island Bones - Forensic Mystery (2022)
   4- Digitalis, A Deadly Dame (2023)
   5- Gelsemium, A Deadly Game (2023)
   6- Helleborus, Death on the Hudson (2023)

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