

And Shay has to figure out how to get her beloved out of jail.Ĭhandler gives us appealing secondary characters, including Shay’s best friend, “vegetarian tree hugger” Coop, and Eddy, her feisty and fearless senior citizen landlady. So when JT turns up with pickle juice on her blouse, she’s arrested.

Turns out the dead man is a child trafficker who JT had belted when she lost her cool. When JT goes off to buy a pickle, Shay finds the corpse in the potty. In “Pickle,” Shay is dragged to her first Minnesota Ren Fair by her cool and collected lover, Minneapolis homicide detective JT.

Shay, co-owner of a Minneapolis coffee shop, was introduced in “Bingo Barge Murder,” followed by “Hide and Snake Murder.” How’s that for a wowza beginning to the third in Chandler’s Shay O’Hanlon Caper series? “Pickle in the Middle Murder” by Jessie Chandler (Midnight Ink, $14.99): A dead guy is found sitting in a Porta Potty at the Renaissance Festival. If you are looking for some fun summer reading, here are four new ones by women writers that will entertain you while you’re catching some sun. Minnesota is blessed with lots of authors who write mysteries in series.
