Pancakes & Handguns: A cozy mystery with bite in Bloomington, MN

If the Darwin Award existed as an actual trophy
, I'd bet my favorite PS5 controller I'd win it. The dedication would read, To Lena Kozek, for bravely-and idiotically-holding a mob boss at gunpoint in a public library. Because that's exactly what I'm doing, and it's making my upper lip sweat like a shot glass of Fireball on a humid summer's day. Yes, I said gunpoint and mobster and library in one sentence. And yes, I'm standing here in my dead mother's dress, my favorite army boots, holding a gun that, three days ago, I didn't know I'd been trained to use. Had it really only been three days? Back then, I'd been excited to pull the trigger on something completely different...