The Alchemist's Poison: An Urban Fantasy Witch Novel (The Wickeden Inquisitor Mysteries #4)

Elusive alchemist, Drosera, has disappeared.
He is renowned throughout the witching world for his talent at finding solutions and reversals to difficult spells and potions. Yet those who seek him out to create formulae to heal the sick have never met him. No one knows what he looks like, apart from the witch who works alongside him in the mortuary, Cecelia Wolfsbane.

Edie Pepperidge is brought in by mortician and medical examiner, Cecelia, to investigate. But Cecelia wants the investigation to be kept quiet from the constabulary and the press, in particular lead reporter for the Wickeden Gazette, Jed Chervil, who Edie is romantically involved with. The only clues Edie has to go on is a ring left on the orange spines of Drosera's pet bearded dragon, Pikog, and the fact Drosera's laboratory was completely ransacked as if someone was searching for something.
As time goes on, Edie suspects Cecelia is hiding important information from her. Information that may be the missing piece to the puzzle as to Drosera's whereabouts.

The Wickeden Inquisitor Mysteries is an Urban Fantasy series set in both the witching and commoners' worlds with an underlying slow burn romance. This series is written in British English and the female protagonist is in her early thirties.

Please note# This book ends on a cliffhanger.