China's usually sensible husband is bored with teaching and ready for a career change...say hello to Mike McQuaid, P.I. McQuaid's first client is Phoebe the Pickle Queen, owner of the biggest little pickle business in Pecan Springs, Texas. She says her plant manager is embezzling, and she wants McQuaid to follow the money. But just days before the annual Picklefest, Phoebe disappears. And now it's up to China to search for her--and for clues in a case that promises to be a real dilly!