SPUNKY BUMPKIN by Sam Cheever

Title:  SPUNKY BUMPKIN

Series:  Country Cousin Mystery #3

Author:  Sam Cheever

Publisher:  Electric Prose Publications

Publish Date:   07.23.2019

Category /Genre:  Cozy Mysteries

Recommended for:  14+ due to vocabulary

Grammar/editing:  A – near perfect

Received from:  Sam Cheever (as an ARC gifted copy)

Goodreads link: Spunky Bumpkin

Date completed: 07.26.2019

Description from the publisher:

In a small country town, justice might be swift…but rumor is swifter!

My name is Joey and I’m just a simple country girl.  Nothing special at all.  Well, except for the fact that I tend to find bodies all over the place.  But aside from that I’m just like everybody else. 
Oh, then there’s that really big secret in my past.  The one that involves my parents dying in a fiery crash and me finding out that the person who caused their deaths might be after me too. 
But none of that matters right now.  What matters is that I have a problem.  My friend, Deputy Arno Willager just arrested his mom for murder.

He’s devastated.  And to make his problems worse, his mom’s beloved elderly dog is in bad shape.  Yeah, long story, we’ll get into that later.

Arno’s mom…well…unfortunately she can’t remember a thing.  So Hal and I ─ oh, Hal’s my boyfriend and he’s a PI ─ are trying to help Arno figure out who killed the troublemaker his mom was standing over with a bloody knife.  Yeah, it’s quite a mess.

But with the help of my best friend Caphy (my Pitbull) and Hal, I’m pretty sure we can suss out a killer. 

After all, we’ve done it a few times already!

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SPUNKY BUMPKIN is the third book in the Country Cousin Mystery series.  This one can stand completely on its own without having read the previous books in the series – though I wish I had.

What do you do when the murder victim is a self-proclaimed sociopath and universally hated in your small town?  When the apparent murderer is the mother of your friend and deputy sheriff?  When the lives of animals and friends are at stake?  You dig in and solve it quickly!

I quickly fell in love with this town of wonderful and diverse characters.  Their individual stories are a reminder that we all have pasts that aren’t perfect but make us who we are.  Together, they are a community full of love, respect, suspicion, and concern for one another.

All in all, it was a fun light cozy read that I enjoyed and would love to read more in this series and from this author.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Country Cousin Mysteries:

1.      Humpty Bumpkin

2.      Mucky Bumpkin

3.      Spunky Bumpkin

Also from Sam Cheever:

·         Astra Gets a Lump of Coal for Christmas

·         The Biggest Poser

·         Bits ‘n’ Bytes

·         Blue Moon

·         Blue Screened

·         Bump ‘n’ Grind

·         Changeling Encounter:  Incubus Nights

·         Cupid Only Rings Twice

·         Cybele’s Angel

·         Dancing with Tad

·         Deep Dark Desire

·         Del Fantasma:  Fallen Angel

·         The Demon Mate

·         Dented Logic

·         Doing the Baba Yaga (Forever Wicked #7)

·         Dream Lover

·         Elf-Satisfied

·         Encounter:  It Perfect

·         Encounter:  Sleep Depraved

·         A Familiar Problem (Reluctant Familiar Mysteries #2)

·         Familiar Territory

·         For Life

·         Foxed

·         Foxy:  Splintered

·         Guardian

·         Hexually Obsessed

·         Hot ‘n’ Bothered

·         Moon Burn

·         Mourning Commute (Funeral Fakers #2)

·         Namaste, My Love

·         Nocked for a Loop (Naughty Nooners)

·         Purple Prose

·         Riding the Pulse

·         Slow Burner

·         Soul Warrior

·         Splintered

·         ‘Tween Hopeful and Hopeless (Dancin’ with the Devil #4.5)

Alphas of the Blood Series:

1.      Sangui

2.      Mavim

Apocalyptic Series:

1.      Apocalyptic Mojo

2.      Tall, Dark, and Apocalyptic

3.      An Apocalyptic Need

Bedeviled & Beyond Series:

1.      Bedeviled & Beguiled

2.      Bedeviled & Bedazzled

3.      Bedeviled & Beleaguered

4.      Bedeviled & Belittled

5.      Bedeviled & Besmirched

6.      Bedeviled & Befouled

6.5 Bedeviled & Bah Humbug

7.      Bedeviled & Bewildered

Gainfully Employed Mysteries:

4.      Homicidal Holiday

5.      Fatal Assignment

6.      Murderous Craft

7.      Toxic Tech

Gods of Love Series:

1.      Nocked Over

2.      Nocked Asunder

3.      Nocked Senseless

Halloween Love Series:

1.      Bound by Blood

2.      Moon Burn

3.      Blue Moon

4.      Deep Dark Desire

Holidays Are Hell Series:

1.      Devil Under the Mistletoe

2.      Devil May Care

3.      Esther Egg Hunt

4.      Trick or Devil

Honeybun Fever Series:

1.      Shadow of a Honeybun

2.      Honeybun Sheik

3.      Stealth Honeybun

4.      Hell Hath No Honeybun

5.      HoHo Honeybun

Honeybun Heat Series:

1.      A Honeybun and Coffee

2.      Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of a Honeybun

3.      Fast Track to a Honeybun

4.      A Honeybun in Hell

5.      Honeybun in a Loin Cloth

6.      Honeybun at a Dude Ranch

7.      Honeybun on the Run

8.      Honeybun One and Done

9.      Aloha Honeybun

La Fortuna DeVitis Series:

1.      Revealing Nicola

2.      Pursuing Elana

3.      Surviving Gabriella

Miss Chance Meets Miss Fortune Series:

1.      Bayou Bubba

2.      Bubba Dub Dub

3.      Undercover Bubba

Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries:

1.      Flo Charts

2.      Dose Vidanya

2.5 Christmas Grift

3.      Freezer Bernie

4.      Bad Haircut

5.      Naval Gazing

6.      Vlad-Handing

Smart Investigations, Inc Series:

1.      Smart Alex

2.      Street Smart

Yesterday’s Paranormal Mysteries:

1.      Yesterday’s News

2.      Threads of Yesterday

3.      Yesterday’s Ghost

4.      Yesterday’s Lost

5.      Yules of Yesterday

6.      Yesterday’s Tears

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