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