This plant stars in my next #CesareAldo novel

It is aconitine, also known as monkshood, wolf’s bane, and queen of poisons. It is highly toxic, and proves a deadly weapon in the second Cesare Aldo novel which will be published in March 2022. Here’s a sneak preview of the epigram that opens the novel:

“Most people, on beginning a task which looks fine at first, cannot see the poison that is hidden in it.”