ACONITE Queen of Poisons

ACONITE Queen of Poisons

Based on a True Life Story

Booze Blanks? Lady Doctors? Poison Cures?

It's the Roaring 20's New York, and a feisty orphan rises from the Little Italy slums to become a doctor. Josephine Reva, M.D. is a trailblazing woman on a mission -- she's seeking equality in a male-dominated profession. But after no Manhattan hospitals will hire a female, Josephine puts out her shingle in faraway Brooklyn as the area's first "Lady Doctor." 

Prohibition forbids drinking, but doctors can still prescribe "medicinal" booze. Not surprisingly, Josephine's patients flock to her, but bootleggers put her on their radar.

When an unexpected invitation arrives to join her male peers at a conference, Josephine is surprised. Medicine is at a crossroads -- should she choose Allopathy or Homeopathy? Will Josephine renounce her paradoxical "poison cures"?

Murder intrudes when a doctor is found dead at the docks from Aconite, a purple flower known as the "Queen of Poisons." Because Aconite is also a homeopathic remedy, Josephine realizes she's being framed.

Chief Detective John O'Malley is a hard-boiled cop who believes poison is a "woman's weapon." Josephine has no alibi. The two begin a cat and mouse chase along the killer's trail, meeting some famous but forgotten New Yorkers, as the bodies pile up.

With help from her devoted patients, Josephine goes undercover as her alter-ego - a sexy Jazz Age flapper - to a speakeasy to spy on suspicious doctors, quacks, and bootleggers.

Pulling Josephine out of trouble is Dominick, her brawny and handsome chauffeur with a mysterious World War past.

Complications arise when Josephine falls for a debonair suspect. Is he friend or foe? Is the budding romance about to get nipped in the bud? 

Can Josephine unmask the murderer? Can she unravel her own secrets to follow her heart and her ambition?