• Perfect Poison

  • A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine
  • By: M. William Phelps
  • Narrated by: J. Charles
  • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (209 ratings)

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Perfect Poison

By: M. William Phelps
Narrated by: J. Charles
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Publisher's summary

In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse - so why were her patients dying?

So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred while Kristen made her rounds on Ward C that her colleagues jokingly called her the "Angel of Death". Yet most people didn't suspect the horrifying truth behind the nickname: that Gilbert's polished façade concealed a scheming, manipulative liar and a homicidal, narcissistic sociopath.

From August 1995 through February 1996, Gilbert dealt out wholesale death. Her victims were helpless patients who trusted her as a caregiver, only to learn too late that she was a killer, her weapon a drug capable of causing fatal heart attacks.

She got away with murder until three of her fellow nurses could no longer ignore the proliferation of deadly "coincidences" on Gilbert's watch. Investigators believe Kristen Gilbert may have been responsible for as many as 40 deaths. As the law closed in, she struck back, faking suicide attempts, harassing witnesses, stalking her ex-boyfriend, and terrorizing the hospital with bomb threats.

In March 2001, after being found guilty of four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, "Angel of Death" Kristen Gilbert was sentenced to life imprisonment.

©2008 M. William Phelps (P)2008 Brilliance Audio

Critic reviews

"A first-rate investigative examination." (Dr. Michael Baden, forensic pathologist and host of HBO's Autopsy series)
"Charles' precise reading takes listeners into Gilbert's paranoia." ( AudioFile)

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book girl

I love true crime and found this book well written, interesting and informative. I work in health care so it resonated with me. The VA is known to be just as it is represented here; interested in covering its own ass at the expense of the veterans it is suppose to serve. The narrator was one of the best I've heard and we all know a great narrator can make a good book great and a great book mediocre or worse. I say this listen is "credit worthy".

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good book

I enjoyed this book. There's a lesson here: don't leave your loved ones alone in a hospital.

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in-depth and true account great narration too

I'm from the area and remember alittle from the news.
this book was dead on accurate

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Excellent!!

What a great delve into such a twisted mind. Well written and researched. Highly recommended

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Boring

I could hardly get through this book. Just so much repetition about the boring details. I personally don't want to hear how many amps ephedrine comes in for 30 minutes. It was written in the 90's and there are no recent
updates as to how this sick woman is doing in prison, is she even still alive? At the end I didn't even care.

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