Don't Blame the Snake · A Margo Fortier Mystery

It's the sweltering summer of '95 and most of the public remains indoors, watching the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Down south in sweltering New Orleans, a literary celebrity lies dead of a mysterious rattlesnake bite in his penthouse suite. Margo Fortier, the stripper-turned-society columnist and her gay husband, Julian, follow the murderer's trail aboard a cruise ship to attend a mystery conference where they meet the usual contingent of writers, fans, publishers, and the rabid "pre-published" along with a god-like Greek deckboy, a priest traveling incognito, and a dissipated, old horror writer and his dominatrix

Third in Tony Fennelly's (The Hippie in the Wall) funny Margo Fortier series, Don't Blame the Snake, lands the stripper-turned-society columnist heroine at a literary conference on a cruise ship. One of the participants is killed in his cabin, and Margo must keep a close eye on the odd and unsavory suspects, including a bestselling author and his dominatrix, an ex-jewel thief and a struggling professor.