The Camp BIrd Cafe

When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway is asked by a friend to help find her missing uncle, he never dreams he'll soon be on his way to a Bob Ross paint-along in a town called the Switzerland of America while trying to figure out why a cafe's server would have a circuit diagram tattooed on her arm.

And the deeper he gets into America's Alps, the more questions he finds himself asking: Is the old run-down resort he's staying at really haunted? Why is the mysterious white-haired man on a dirt bike carrying a dog in a basket? Why would someone bury a strongbox that contains only a few family photos and a military court-martial manual? And what's the deal with the old insulators his friend's uncle sent her-or were they mailed by someone else to lure her into trouble?

And of course, Bud's friends Mayor Howie and Shorty the retired geologist go along for the ride, dispensing their questionable wisdom and analyses as the story unfolds, the young railroad graffiti artist called Chance also adding his two-bits' worth, though none are prepared for the story to take them back to their hometown of Green River, Utah, where a mysterious tunnel on an old abandoned Air Force base may hold the key to what Bud calls "the Insulator Caper."

A missile known as the flying junkyard and possibly carrying radioactive cobalt 57, an elusive cousin that no one seems to have ever met, shenanigans with Green River's BOB-Os (Bucket of Bolts Overlanders), a skulking Air Force major, and a Laundromat Owners' Convention, and who could ask for more intrigue and adventure in the untrammeled wilds of Utah and Colorado?

This is book #22 in the Bud Shumway Mystery Series.