I am so happy to shine a spotlight on one of my favorite mystery series Sunshine Vicram Mystery Series by Darynda Jones. “New York Times bestseller Darynda Jones brings her trademark wit and charm to a snarky, sassy, wickedly fun small-town mystery series featuring Sunshine Vicram, the reluctant police chief of Del Sol, New Mexico. This series has everything fans of Darynda Jones love: a funny and relatable main character, a cast of wacky secondary characters, a heartwarming town, and a classic whodunnit at the center of it all.”

Books in the Series:

Book 1: A Bad Day for Sunshine

Book 2: A Good Day for Chardonnay

Book 3: A Hard Day for a Hangover

More About the Setting:

Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o’ joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose.

Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee―and a nationwide manhunt? 

Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff—an election her adorably meddlesome parents entered her in—and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of it’s reminding Sunny why she left Del Sol in the first place. Add to that trouble at her daughter’s new school and a kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and Sunshine has her hands full.

About the Author:

NYTimes and USA Today Bestselling Author Darynda Jones has won numerous awards for her work, including a prestigious RITA, a Golden Heart, and a Daphne du Maurier, and her books have been translated into 17 languages. 

As a born storyteller, Darynda grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, certain they went away the better for it. She penned the international bestselling Charley Davidson series and the Betwixt and Between Series of paranormal women’s fiction. She lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her husband and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys. 

She can be found at http://www.daryndajones.com 

Series Read Alikes:

Charley Davidson Series by Darynda Jones: Charlotte “Charley” Davidson, a part-time private investigator helping the police with her ability to contact the dead in her full-time role as the Grim Reaper, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a paranormal romantic suspense series.

Finlay Donovan Series by Elle Cosimano: Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano’s witty, fast-paced adult mystery series follows struggling suspense novelist and single mom turned-amateur-sleuth Finlay Donovan, whose fiction begins to tread dangerously close to the truth. In the first book, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel over lunch with her agent only to get mistaken for a contract killer. In Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead, Finlay, struggling again to finish another novel, must now also deal with the fact that someone wants her ex-husband dead.

The Vacation Mysteries Series by Catherine Mack: The hilarious and irresistible Vacation Mysteries series follows bestselling fictional suspense author Eleanor Dash, as she ends up in a real-life murder mystery as her life starts to imitate her art, and vice versa.