RUDOLPH, THE RED-NOSED BUMPKIN by Sam Cheever

Title:  RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED BUMPKIN

Series:  Country Cousin Mystery #4

Author:  Sam Cheever

Publisher:  Magnum Grace Publishing

Publish Date:   11.19.2019

Category /Genre:  Cozy Mystery

Recommended for:  14+ due to murder

Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from:  Sam Cheever

Goodreads link: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Bumpkin

Date completed: 11.23.2019

Description from the publisher:

Rudy the Red-Nosed Bumpkin, died a very shiny death…

Rudy-Bob Hortmann has never quite gotten the hang of making friends.  He doesn’t much like peopling, mostly preferring the company of his pot-bellied pig, Ethel Squeaks to humanoid types.  But there’s one exception.  Rudy-Bob loves kids.  So for Christmas every year he gives himself a present.  He plays Santa at the annual Deer Hollow Christmas party.  Only this year, Rudy-Bob doesn’t make it out of the Santa suit when the Pageant is done.  Instead, Deputy Sheriff Arno Willager finds Rudy-Bob literally chillin’ in a snowbank, his bulbous nose flashing red through the snow.

That’s where I come into the picture.  I’m Joey Fulle and I’m pretty good at finding bodies around my place on the outskirts of Deer Hollow.  I didn’t actually find this one, of course.  But I’m fully invested in locating his killer.  ’Cause, with the help of my handsome PI boyfriend Hal, my sweet and goofy Pitbull Caphy, and my opinionated Siamese cat, LaLee, I’m also pretty good at finding killers.  Sometimes, even before they find me…

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RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED BUMPKIN is the fourth story in the Country Cousin Mystery series and just one of 12 stories found exclusively in the 12 Cozy Mystery Carols of Christmas.

Spending time with Joey and her beau, Hal, made me think of the lines of the Christmas Carol:  “Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful. 

Since we’ve nowhere to go, let it snow; let it snow; let it snow.”

But, I had to add my own verse:

Our favorite Santa’s been left a chillin’ in a snowbank and his pot-belly pig is a reelin’

Though the killer we must know; Still it snows; still it snows; still it snows!

In this series, the murder is always upstaged by the adorable animals.  This time the victim’s pot-bellied pig outshines Joey’s Siamese cat and Pitbull.  This is not an easy task!

This was a fun mystery with some great turns, surprises… and frosted cookies!

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

4.      Rudolph the Red-Nosed 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

Enchanting Inquiries Series:

1.      Tea & Croakies

2.      Fortune Croakies

3.      Gram Croakies

4.      Croakies & Scream

Gainfully Employed Mysteries:

5.      Homicidal Holiday

6.      Fatal Assignment

7.      Murderous Craft

8.      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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