Minerva Haag is back, facing her toughest case yet. Landing in the watery canals of Venice, Minerva is hired to use her trademarked eroticism and loose association with the law to help catch the Gondola killer. The only problem? The town is drier than a Vivek Ramaswamy rally due to an STD outbreak. Cut off from the potent power of penetration, Minerva must rely on her observational skills, solo masturbation, and dirty talking if she has any hopes of catching the killer.
Minerva’s latest adventure begins on the Venetian canals when a gondolier-less gondola crashes into the Rialto Bridge. Upon inspection, the body of a syphilis riddled local puttana is found dead. With no physical evidence pointing to a murderer, Minerva is brought in. But no one in town is talking…or moaning, all too frightened by the wave of gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia that has infected the waterways of Venice.
Was it the out of towner who just happened to have a heretofore unknown connection to the deceased? Was it a ritualistic killing in the vein of Heaven’s Gate? Or, was her death tied to the church’s ambitious expansion plans she discovered while hooking? It seems like everyone had the means and motive to commit murder. The suspect list continues to grow, with each addition more shocking and unlikely than the last.
With bodies piling up, will Minerva get to the bottom of this case before her per diem runs out? And more important, will someone get to her bottom before she explodes? Move over Patient Zero because Patient Sixty Nine is on the case.