Title: War and peas
Description: Wealthy old Auguste Caspar Snellen, the legendary Pea King, is long gone, but his greatest legacy lives on: the Snellen Museum, an institution dedicated to the glorification of local lore and legumes. But at this years annual Pea Festival, the museum sustains a terrible loss when its able, innovative director, Regina Price Palmer, is shot to death during a noisy reenactment of a Civil War battle.
Suburban single mom Jane Jeffrey was a costumed participant in the deadly pageant. Now her part-time work at the museum has put Jane and best friend Shelley Nowack in the midst of a veritable podful of murder suspects. And its up to Jane and Shelley to determine who fatally beaned poor Regina--before another victim is planted six feet under.
Subjects: Crimes against, Fiction, Historical reenactments, Jane Jeffry (Fictitious character), Museum directors, Single mothers, Suburban life, Women detectives, Large type books, Jeffry, jane (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Illinois, fiction
Places: Chicago, Chicago (Ill.), Illinois