Latin Omnivore / Rain, Venom, Toil

A pair of intertwined metafictional literary mystery novellas published in a single tête-bêche (i.e., reversible) volume.

LATIN OMNIVORE

The professor has always preferred to let things play out rather than get involved, be it her failing marriage, her troubled adult children, or college departmental politics. This changes when she's approached by Mitra Leninov, a transfer student from Iran. Leninov presents a strange Latin manuscript, Pluvia, Ostium, Laboribus (Rain, Venom, Toil), that must ...