Baz needs to find a stuffed snake that he might have “borrowed” from a house where he was cleaning duct-work for “Ducky Ducts Duct Cleaning: we clean your pipes slick as a whistle, guaranteed.” Some very scary men want the stuffed reptile returned. Intensely loyal to her family of blood and choice and still haunted by the accident, Shay is the smart-mouthed, first person narrator of Jessie Chandler’s Hide and Snake Murder: A Shay O’Hanlon Caper.īasil Lazowski, an old schoolmate and ne’er do well, better known as Baz the Spaz, has called Shay for help and she finds herself drawn into a series of bizarre and often confusing events that will take her to the other end of the Mississippi and back. Edwina became a de facto mother for Shay. When she was ten years old, Shay was in a car accident that killed her mother and the son of Edwina Quartermain, her mother’s best friend. Shay has had a reputation for being the “Tenacious Protector” of her family and friends, standing up to bullies since grade school. A thirty-something lesbian, Shay is co-owner of the Rabbit Hole, a coffee shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota, her hometown. Life has a way of getting complicated for Shay O’Hanlon. ‘Hide and Snake Murder: A Shay O’Hanlon Caper’ by Jessie Chandler
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