COW TRIPPIN

A Gumbo Malone Florida Mystery

Five college students. One Florida cow pasture. Four kidnappings. And the dumbest criminal gang this side of the Everglades.

Welcome to Florida, where the cows are innocent, the mushrooms are questionable, and the criminals probably shouldn't be allowed to operate heavy machinery.

When a battered, barefoot college student stumbles onto private investigator Gumbo Malone's boat in Cedar Key, she's got a story that sounds like something dreamed up after eating the wrong mushrooms.

She and four friends went hunting for psychedelic mushrooms in a remote Florida cow pasture.

Instead, they found trouble.

Big trouble. Wearing teal satin jackets.

Meet the Tumblebugs, a self-proclaimed criminal family with a dung beetle logo, a black Suburban, and a collective IQ that might qualify as a misdemeanor.

They've kidnapped four college students, threatened to bury them in manure, and somehow managed to turn organized crime into an exercise in spectacular incompetence.

Unfortunately, they're also dangerous.

And now they're looking for the girl who escaped.

ENTER GUMBO MALONE.

Cedar Key's most unconventional private investigator would rather be enjoying a cold beer aboard his boat, the Severance Package, with Pete the pelican keeping watch.

Instead, he's chasing kidnappers through cattle pastures, dodging shotgun-wielding grandmothers, and trying to understand why a gang of idiots is so interested in cow manure.

Because something doesn't add up.

Why are mysterious men in protective suits collecting samples from a Florida pasture?

What's really happening behind the Tumblebugs' ridiculous criminal enterprise?

And why are powerful people willing to go to extraordinary lengths to keep five college students quiet?

As Gumbo follows the trail, a simple missing-person case turns into a wildly unpredictable adventure involving suspicious scientific experiments, crooked deals, political ambitions, and a conspiracy that stinks worse than the bottom of a cattle barn.

With four lives on the line, a frightened young woman depending on him, and the Florida summer heat making everybody a little crazier, Gumbo will need every ounce of his detective instincts.

Plus a little help from his eccentric friends.

And possibly a very large pelican.

Because in Florida, sometimes you have to step in a whole lot of manure to uncover the truth.

COW TRIPPIN is a hilarious, fast-paced Florida comedy mystery featuring Gumbo Malone, the lovable private investigator who keeps finding himself in the middle of the Sunshine State's strangest criminal adventures.

Packed with laugh-out-loud dialogue, outrageous villains, colorful Gulf Coast characters, unexpected twists, and enough Florida weirdness to fill a cattle trailer.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Funny Florida mysteries and offbeat crime fiction
• Quirky private investigators and eccentric detectives
• Carl Hiaasen-style Florida absurdity and criminal misadventures
• Wildly incompetent criminals and outrageous conspiracies
• Fast-paced mystery adventures with humor, heart, and unforgettable characters

Grab COW TRIPPIN today.

The mushrooms aren't the only things getting wild in this pasture.

And this mystery is about to hit the fan.