A sub-company to the largest pharmaceutical corporation in the world, located in South Carolina, has fallen victim to a serial killer. Three are dead as they were working to successfully synthesize venoms into drugs that would cure virtually every major human ailment. Aids, cancer, heart disease, Parkinsons and Alzheimers, to name a few, would go away. Cured. The police have a suspect in custody, a Doctor and Professor of Herpetology and Toxicology at the institution conducting the research, and who led the projects. But the Doctor proclaims that she is innocent and is relying on her boyfriend and attorney to prove it. The attorney, Jacob Grantes, is forced to call upon an old friend from South Boston, MA, a private investigator that saved his life at one time. The search for the truth takes the investigator, Warren Dennihan, through the underbelly of Big Pharma, industrial espionage, and the mind of a serial killer. There is no end to the number of people who want to thwart these drugs, and kill using the very toxin that they want to stop. All of the answers lie in Venom.