"As co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool Minneapolis coffee shop, Shay O'Hanlon finds life highly caffeinated but far from dangerous. That is, until her lifelong friend Coop becomes a murder suspect. The victim was Kinky, Coop's former boss and the unsavory owner of The Bingo Barge, a sleazy gambling boat on the Mississippi. The weapon? Kinky's lucky bronzed bingo marker. While unearthing clues to absolve Coop, Shay encounters Mafia goons hunting...

"Shay O'Hanlon never knew the Minnesota Renaissance Festival was such a strange and bawdy event until JT Bordeaux--her badge-wearing, medieval-loving girlfriend--drags her along for a visit. The sixteenth-century faire is full of thrilling jousts, feisty wenches, and pickle vendors showing off their tasty tonsil ticklers, but Shay is distracted by the call of her full bladder. While trying to rein in her newest dog's overactive nose, she finds a dead...

As she finishes her shift at the Rabbit Hole, Shay O'Hanlon is confronted by two suspicious strangers looking for Eddy Quartermaine, the closest to a mother Shay has.