When Vejay Haskell—meter reader turned amateur sleuth—hunts down a murderer in a resort town, she must first uncover the identity of the "bohemian connection," the local contact for drugs, prostitutes, and other illegal pleasures

When Edwina Henderson, town magnate, dies after taste-testing a slug pizza during the county fair of the California slug, it is up to Vejay Haskell to find the person who poisoned her