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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2011
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Bud Shumway Mystery

1 - The Ghost Rock Cafe (Jun-2011)
2 - The Slickrock Cafe (Dec-2011)
3 - The Paradox Cafe (Aug-2012)
4 - The No Delay Cafe (Jan-2013)
5 - The Silver Spur Cafe (Mar-2014)
6 - The Ice House Cafe (Sep-2014)
7 - The Rattlesnake Cafe (Oct-2016)
8 - The Beartooth Cafe (Dec-2016)
9 - The Melon Rind Cafe (Apr-2018)
10 - The Cessna Cafe (Aug-2019)
11 - The Klondike Cafe (Oct-2019)
12 - The Yellow Cat Cafe (Mar-2020)
13 - The Swiftcurrent Cafe (May-2020)
14 - The Sunnyside Cafe (Nov-2020)
15 - The Temple Mountain Cafe (Nov-2021)
16 - The Black Dragon Cafe (Jun-2022)
17 - The Teewinot Cafe (Jan-2023)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • An old hermit has been killed in Utah's wildlands, and Sheriff Bud Shumway knows it's murder, even though some say it was a cougar kill. Others think it was done by a Bigfoot who has roamed the area for years, killing cattle and leaving people so tra...



  • The crusty owner of a local rock shop has been killed in Utah’s wildlands, and ex-sheriff Bud Shumway has been asked to return to his hometown to solve the crime. He reluctantly agrees, never suspecting the case involves an old childhood friend and...



  • Rancher Mack Murphy has been buying up land in southwest Colorado, threatening those who won't sell, including Junior, the uncle of ex-sheriff Bud Shumway. Bud agrees to visit his uncle to help defuse things, never suspecting he would get caught righ...



  • An old rock hound has been killed in Utah's wildlands, and ex-sheriff Bud Shumway knows it has something to do with black-market dinosaur bone thieves, even though his bumbling replacement, Sheriff Howie, thinks it has something to do with aliens. An...



  • The self-centered director of a small Shakespearean troupe has been killed on the flanks of a remote Utah bluff, and ex-sheriff Bud Shumway knows it has something to do with someone in the Witness Protection Program, even though his bumbling replacem...



  • When ex-sheriff Bud Shumway and his wife, Wilma Jean, decide to vacation in a scenic Colorado town near Aspen, they never guess they’ll soon be immersed in solving the murder of a famous country-western singer. And even though Bud’s bumbling repl...



  • When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway agrees to help out his friend, Sheriff Hum Stocks, as a deputy for the winter, he never guesses he'll soon be deep in the rugged and wild Dolores Triangle, trying to solve not only the mystery of a sk...



  • When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway and his wife, Wilma Jean, head to Montana to pursue Bud’s dream of learning to fly-fish, Bud never guesses he’ll soon be deeply involved in trying to solve the mystery of a missing lunch lady heâ€...



  • When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway learns that his wife, Wilma Jean, wants to sell her cafe and become a backcountry pilot, he senses that his world is about to change, and not necessarily in a good way. But Bud never guesses that heâ€...






  • When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway learns that his job is on the line, he knows that big changes are coming, though he has no idea exactly what kind. And with his wife’s new business running an air-based catering service, he knows sh...



  • When a Mountie shows up in Sheriff Bud Shumway's Utah office and accuses him of aiding and abetting a possible murderer in Canada’s Yukon Territory, Bud is mystified, especially since he doesn't even know the guy. And when he receives a gold-mining...



  • When a mystery writer from New York shows up in Sheriff Bud Shumway's little Utah town, he doesn't think much about it, other than to note that she seems to be avoiding him. But when a famous opera singer, also from New York, shows up shortly thereaf...



  • When Sheriff Bud Shumway's aunt and uncle invite him and his wife to join them for a vacation in beautiful Glacier National Park, he has no idea that he'll soon be on a search for their daughter, the same cousin Bud went to high school with and who e...



  • When Sheriff Bud Shumway's Aunt Ginger asks him to deliver a stove to her new cafe in Sunnyside, Utah, Bud has no idea that he'll soon be in the middle of trying to solve how his Uncle Hank's friend, Jimmy Johnson, was killed, even though the giant t...



  • When Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a call to fly into Utah's remote and mysterious Maze District to help recover the body of a man wearing a tuxedo, he has no idea that it's only the beginning of a series of strange happenings, from a missing symphony orc...



  • It's 1961, the height of the Cold War and a young archaeologist sets foot into the wild canyons of southeast Utah, searching for a rock-art panel that may hold the answer to the disappearance of the Anasazi. She is accompanied by her dog, Buddy Blue,...



  • When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a strange letter saying a perfect crime is about to be committed, he has no idea that it's just the beginning of a series of cryptic happenings, from a body that goes missing to finding another that happens to belon...



  • When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway gets an invitation from his geologist friend Shorty to accompany him to Grand Teton National Park, he has no idea that it's just the beginning of a series of mysterious happenings, from finding an empty grave high on the...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chinle Miller has published 18 books.

Chinle Miller does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Teewinot Cafe, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Chinle Miller, The Ghost Rock Cafe, was published in June 2011.

Yes. Chinle Miller has 1 series.