Murder by Death

The Belladonna chapter is much shorter than the Arsenic chapter, and I raced through it last night.  I know the basic gardener-level stuff about Belladonna, the nightshade family and atropine but I appreciated the refresher on the alkaloid's interactions with the body at a cellular level.  Even though I read the book for the first time last year, I'm benefitting enormously from the re-read; so much of the chemistry didn't stick the first time around.  I particularly like how she covered atropine as a poison and an antidote, clearly illustrating the fine line between a substances ability to be a saviour, or an executioner.