The Friends of the Enfield Library are thrilled to host Luci Zahray aka The Poison Lady on Wednesday, July 31 at 6:00 pm. Luci will share her expertise about arsenic through Zoom. Come watch at the library or watch from home. Contact lsprague@enfield.org for a Zoom invitation.

Luci Zahray is a retired pharmacist with a master’s degree in toxicology from Texas A&M. She has two great passions in life: poisons and mysteries, though she’s never poisoned anyone or tried to write a mystery.

She was born and raised in Texas, becoming a hospital pharmacist in 1982 after graduating from the University of Houston. But in 1990, she moved to Michigan. Away from family, “totally traumatized,” and unaccustomed to the climate, she threw herself into reading mysteries, which had been a singular hobby for her since her grandmother gave her a Sherlock Holmes book for her 11th birthday.

Over the years, mystery writers throughout North America have sought help from Luci on poisoning their fictional characters.