a poison thriller that’s anything but cozy…

After a 2-year hiatus in the dangerous Game of Twins, revenge again compels him to go after Suzanne Delacroix, her family, and friends -- this time with deadly golden frog poison. She has only one choice to end it once and for all. Easier said than done, though, finding and eliminating the richest, most powerful narco on the planet.

Of course, the unrivaled Queen of Crime mysteries and Queen of Poisons is Agatha Christie, who killed off three dozen characters in 66 books with lots of poisons like Arsenic, Strychnine, Thallium, Ricin, Cyanide, Digitalis, Atropine, Belladonna, etc. Her books are whodunit, cozy mystery masterpieces – many laced with deaths by poison.

Perhaps Agatha knew of golden frog poison – or perhaps not? Though, milliliter per milliliter, it’s deadlier than any of her poisons by a factor of more than a hundred. If she did know of it, it’s so rare that it might not have fit well with her plots. And while her poisons can be relatively easily tested for, it takes Gas or Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry to identify the active neurotoxin, batrachotoxin, in golden frog poison. To my knowledge, golden frog poison has never played any role in any work of fiction. So, I figured it was about time that it did.

Like the three books before it, Golden Frog Poison – Game of Twins is a fast-paced, fun thriller mystery with lots of action, suspense, violence, and intrigue—with some occult, supernatural, and sex sprinkled in. It’s not a cozy mystery.

The dark Game of Twins backdrop is a story of revenge and a long struggle between Good and Evil born of an event that happened four centuries ago, mushroomed in the era of J. Edgar Hoover, and then revved up again in the twenty-first century.

Golden Frog Poison – Game of Twins is the 4th book in my Game of Twins series, but it reads great as a standalone and includes enough info from the earlier books to add plot context. Deadly golden frog poison plays a small role in two of the previous novels but is promoted to the star-of-the-show in this one.