A LITTLE DEATH

About the Book

A LITTLE DEATH BY JOVANKA BACH Revised by John Stark Jocasta Rex, is a medical doctor. One day she walks into her office and discovers a naked body lying on her examination table. It’s the body of a sophomore student, Hector Ramirez Munoz, and the striking feature is a fully erect penis. Jocasta is stunned. Her office is in shambles. While searching around for clues, she is suddenly struck on the head from behind. She falls to the ground unconscious. When she recovers she is surrounded by police investigators, who are incessantly questioning her about the murder of Hector. Jocasta is adamant about taking on her own investigation of the murder so the officers leave. Her quest leads her to Venezuela, where she discovers an underground factory that is distilling a powerful aphrodisiac from a plant called Rubour Vellorum Flapparum or Red Velvet Flapper. Eventually she solves the case, aided by the local police who arrest the farmers growing the plant, and Jocasta becomes recognized as a brilliant scientific investigator, that eliminated a dangerous drug.

About the Author

Jovanka Bach was a playwright, novelist and medical doctor based in Los Angeles. Her first successful stage plays were the Balkan Trilogy, which her husband John Stark, produced and directed at the Odyssey Theatre in Santa Monica and off-Broadway at the Barrow Group Theatre in New York. Other successful plays included O'Neill's Ghosts, Sylvie, and Mercy Warren's Tea. Most recently her play Chekhov and Maria was produced in New York by John Stark, and filmed by Eric Till. It won three best feature awards, and is now airing on Super Channel Canada, PBS TV, Russian TV and coming up soon on Spanish and French TV. Her Platypus children's stories were written just before she passed away in 2006. The three stories were illustrated by Colby Monier. http://www.johnstarkproductions.com/