{"product_id":"b0h68mvwg4","title":"Fatal Lunch: The Death Cap Mushroom Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003eEXHAUSTIVELY RESEARCHED.\u003cbr\u003e\nCOMPELLINGLY TOLD. IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt began as an ordinary winter Saturday in Leongatha, a small town in rural Victoria, Australia. A home-cooked lunch: beef Wellington. Individual portions served with mashed potatoes and green beans. Four people who had driven together to spend an afternoon with someone they loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDon and Gail Patterson had been married for fifty years. Ian Wilkinson was the pastor of the local Baptist church. His wife Heather was a long-time charity volunteer. They were not strangers to Erin Patterson. They were the closest thing she had to family. They sat down expecting a warm meal and easy conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey had no reason to be afraid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHidden inside each pastry parcel was Amanita phalloides - the death cap mushroom - a toxin so silent and so merciless that by the time doctors recognise it, it is most often too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter her guests left, Erin went upstairs and played Lego. That evening she took her son to Subway for dinner. It was, on the surface, an ordinary Saturday night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin a week, three of her lunch guests were dead from the poisoning, and the fourth was fighting for his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuspicion fell quickly on the woman who had cooked the meal. The evidence was entirely circumstantial. No motive was ever proven. The verdict was unanimous: guilty of triple murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFatal Lunch tells the complete story of what brought these people to that table, and everything that followed - the investigation, the trial, the survivor’s ordeal, and the families torn apart by an act of violence so calculated, and so cold, it would shock a nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it looks at the question at the very heart of this case:  How do you sit across a table from people who thought of you as family, and watch them eat something you know will kill them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“ Thoroughly researched and packed with details not previously reported... expertly guides readers through every stage of the investigation... balanced and unbiased... never losing sight of the human tragedy at its heart. A compelling and respectful account that will stay with you long after the final page.”\u003cbr\u003e\n- Emily Dunne\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52834600354008,"sku":"YSL56460","price":5.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/81PssJrJf0L._SY1500.jpg?v=1793260521","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0h68mvwg4","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}