Bed-Bugged (Doodlebugged Mysteries)
Bed-Bugged (Doodlebugged Mysteries) book cover

Bed-Bugged (Doodlebugged Mysteries)

Paperback – February 15, 2013

Price
$12.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
153
Publisher
Laurel Fork Press
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0615761190
Dimensions
6 x 0.39 x 9 inches
Weight
9.2 ounces

Description

Sign up for Susan's Newsletter at subscribepage.com/n1b5k5 (copy and paste the address) and get a free story as well as sneak previews of coming works and other cool stuff. Before she let her writing go to the dogs, Susan J. Kroupa won awards for her fiction from such places as the Utah Arts Council Contest, Writers of the Future and the Deep South Writing Competition. Her stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy and in a variety of anthologies, including Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters. Now, she is perhaps best known for her Doodlebugged Mysteries, a gentle cozy series featuring the irrepressible but obedience-impaired sniffer-dog, Doodle.Susan lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwestern Virginia with her husband and Toby, a trouble-prone Standard poodle. You can learn more about her at susankroupa.com.

Features & Highlights

  • Laugh out loud with Doodle, the obedience-impaired labradoodle who has charmed mystery fans and dog lovers alike. When Doodle’s “career change” lands him a job with a new boss, he’s not worried. Sniffing out bed bugs? Easy as pie. Well, easier, actually, as getting pie can be a problem for a dog. Doodle finds best part of the new job is Molly, the boss’s ten-year old daughter, who slips Doodle extra treats when she’s not snapping photos with the camera she carries everywhere. But Molly has secrets of her own. And when she enlists Doodle’s help to solve a crime, his nose and her camera lead them straight into danger. Readers have called the Doodlebugged mysteries perfect of fans of Spencer Quinn’s popular Chet & Bernie mysteries, and best-selling author Virginia Smith called Bed-Bugged, “a first-rate mystery” and a “triumphant beginning to a series.” A family friendly mystery perfect for all ages.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Learned a lot!

This is a fun book. There's a good story and a mystery, but I found getting into the labradoodle's head i.e. hearing about life from a dog's perspective, quite educational. He can't communicate directly with his humans, but he understands what they say, even if he doesn't 'get the reference'. Great read for young readers and adults.
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Captivating Canine Caper

This is such a fun book! Told in first person from the dog's point of view (does that make it first dog?), this is a well-written story that I can't get enough of. Doodle is so engaging that at times I forgot he was a dog and wondered why he didn't just tell the others what was going on. He can't, can he? He's a dog, and humans just do not understand dog.

Ms. Kroupa captures and conveys the doginess of Doodle extremely well - so well that I think anyone who likes animals would appreciate and enjoy this book.
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Did I mention that these books are well written?

Bed-Bugged, the first book in the Doodlebugged Mysteries, engages the reader in a thought experiment: what would our world look like from the point of view of a dog who has not had an easy time amongst humans? The results are funny, insightful, touching. The canine-narrator of these books has the good fortune to be rescued by a young single-father and his daughter—they save him; and he, in turn, saves them in all the ways that matter.

Did I mention that these books are well written?

My Mother and I read these books together. When we had finished the last page, we did not want them to be over. I recommend these books.
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