Hide and Snake Murder

Add one strangely valuable six-foot, neon-green stuffed snake, a klepto residential duct cleaner, a couple of thugs, and what do you have? A rollicking race that leads Shay O'Hanlon and friends from Minneapolis to New Orleans and back, with a stop at the Cafe Du Monde, an up close and personal view of the interior of a freezer on a mobile ice cream cart, a heart-pounding visit to a casket manufacturing plant, and a self-induced car wreck.

Throw in a little burgling at the home of a well-respected Minnesota philanthropist, a dangerously errant bottle of vodka, a bear stuffed full of $100 bills, a hot Latin professor, a bloodhound named Bogey, a rookie federal agent, and what do you get? One hell of a mess.

The big question: Will Shay and Co. make it out alive from the clutches of one of the deadliest Mexican cartels around?