Business hasn't been so good at Daniel Valnetine's gay bar in Boston, especially since more and more of the clientele is turning up dead—strangled with neckties. The police are baffled, so Valentine and his crime-solving partner, Clarisse, set out to find the muderer and save Valentine from bankruptcy. From leather boys and jaded priests to faded queens and a deceptively sweet dominatrix, there is no end to the suspects... or the victims. And you never know which is which—until they turn up with that necktie necklace.