How long does it take to read The Perfect Poison?
The Perfect Poison by Jayne Ann Krentz takes about 6 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 376 pages, about 103,400 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Plagued by rumours that she poisoned her fiance, Lucinda Bromley manages to live on the fringes of polite society, tending her beloved plants - and occasionally consulting on a murder investigation. For the notorious botanist possesses a unique talent: she can detect almost any type of poison. But the death of a lord has shaken Lucinda to her core. At the murder scene, she picks up traces of a poison containing a very rare species of fern - stolen from her conservatory just last month. To keep her name out of the investigation, and to find the murderer, Lucinda hires fellow Arcane Society member, Caleb Jones. As a nearly overwhelming desire blooms between them, they are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that can be traced to the early days of the Arcane Society - and to a legacy of madness that could plunge Caleb into the depths of his own tortured soul… Arcane Society Series: (note-has series overlap) Second Sight (Arcane Society, #1) White Lies (Arcane Society, #2) Sizzle and Burn (Arcane Society, #3) The Third Circle (Arcane Society, #4) Running Hot (Arcane Society, #5) The Perfect Poison (Arcane Society, #6) Fired Up (Arcane Society, #7; Dreamlight Trilogy, #1) Burning Lamp (Arcane Society, #8; Dreamlight Trilogy, #2) Midnight Crystal (Ghost Hunters, #7; Arcane Society #9; Dreamlight Trilogy #3) The Scargill Cove Case Files (Arcane Society, #9.5; Looking Glass Trilogy, #0.5) In Too Deep (Arcane Society, #10; Looking Glass Trilogy, #1) Quicksilver (Arcane Society, #11; Looking Glass Trilogy #2) Canyons of Night (Rainshadow, #0; Ghost Hunters, #8; Looking Glass Trilogy, #3; Arcane Society, #12)
Subjects: Romance, Historical Romance, Murder, Secret societies, Fiction, Women botanists
