A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones

Can you be elected sheriff if you don't even run? Apparently if you are Sunshine Vicram you can. It's all a part of her parents plot to have her move back home. Hell, they even built a guest house and they never have guests. It's all a little suspicious. For Sunshine, it's the latest in a series of "interesting" things that have happened to her. At least her fourteen-year-old daughter seems amused by it. 

Too bad both of them are going to have hard first days. Sunshine's consists of an escaped prisoner, a woman nearly crashing into her as she stands in the police station, a kidnapped girl who may or may not have had visions of the kidnapping, and a throwback to Sunshine's own muddled past. 

Auri has to go to school where everyone thinks she is a narc, people spray paint her locker, and the mysterious boy that everyone wants to befriend or date seems to have his eyes on her which paints an even bigger target on her back.

We have alternating third person omniscient narrators and that creates a bit of mystery around the past since they hide things, even from themselves. Jones can be very fun but sometimes veers into the territory of "Too Much" for me but this seems like a great start to a new series.

Four stars

This book came out April 7th, 2020

Followed by A Good Day for Chardonnay

Borrowed as ebook from Libby

Opinions are my own