New York Times bestselling author and Hugo Award winner, T. Kingfisher wallops another one out of the park with the standalone HEMLOCK & SILVER.  This is a dark reimagining of “Snow White” with Kingfisher’s signature dry wit and snark.  I gleefully gobbled this up, staying up well past my bedtime because I could not bear to put this book down.     Healer Anja is not your typical healer.  She deals with poison.  She’s someone who loves to learn for the sheer delight of learning new and interesting things, and poison is her forte.  She has been called out many times to help inadvertently poisoned patients, and for the rest of her life she lives as an eccentric spinster with her wealthy merchant father.  Until the king shows up on her doorstep to ask for her help with the Princess, whom he believes is being covertly poisoned.     Off traipses Anja to live in the castle for what she hopes will be a brief stint, watching the princess and investigating her surroundings for the possible cause of poison.  Since the poisoner might want to do away with the healer tasked with saving the princess, Anja is provided with a taciturn guard.  Anja and her guard are a delight, although truly I loved reading about Anja with just about anyone- she is so frightfully entertaining.  As with most Kingfisher heroines, she’s maladroit, with a heart of gold and a mouth of deadpan humor.     Things are definitely not what they superficially seem at the castle, and the situation turns deliciously spooky pretty quickly.  The world-building is spectacular, just as you’d expect a Kingfisher book to be.  Full of surprising twists and smartly imagined, Kingfisher’s HEMLOCK & SILVER is a gripping mix of magic and mouthiness.  I laughed out loud often as I devoured this book.