Pickle in the Middle Murder: A Shay O’Hanlon Caper

In Chandler’s thrilling third Shay O’Hanlon caper (after 2012’s Hide and Snake Murder), the Rabbit Hole cafe owner and her girlfriend, Minneapolis police officer JT Bordeaux, are enjoying the Minnesota Renaissance Festival when Shay feels the urge to run to the Porta Potties (aka “privies”). When Shay opens an outhouse door, a dead man with a pickle sticking out of his mouth and the back of his head missing topples off the pot. Her call to 911 brings the police, but where’s JT? When she finally appears, disheveled and splattered with pickle fragments, gruff Det. Clint Roberts arrests her for murder. Chandler keeps the suspense high as flustered Shay and spunky Eddy Quartermaine, Shay’s mom stand-in, seek to prove JT’s innocence—and learn a few surprises about her past along the way. (July)