Callahan's Con: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon Series, Book 10

In the discreet little Key West bar that Jake Stonebender established, Fast Eddie Costigan learned to curse back at parrots as he played the house piano, the Reverend Tom Hauptman learned to tend bar bare-chested without blushing, and Long-Drink McGonnigle discovered the margarita and several senoritas. Nobody even noticed them save the universe.

After ten slow, merry years, their laid-back existence is disturbed by a malevolent, moronic mastodon of a Mafioso named Tony Donuts, Jr., intending to resurrect the classic protection racket in Key West. Jake’s scientifically precocious thirteen-year-old daughter is threatened by the truancy officer, and then, thanks to very poor accessorizing, Jake’s wife Zoey picks the wrong belt to wear and suddenly finds herself in a place with no light, no heat, no air, and no way home. The urgent question was where—precisely where—but that turned out to be a problem so complex that even the entire gang, equipped with teleportation, time travel, and telepathicsyntony, might not be able to crack it in time.

And while all this was going on, Death himself walked into the bar. But this time, he would not leave alone.