Tonya Kappes
Author
Series
Kenni Lowry mystery volume 4
Publisher
Henery Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth. And this broth is in trouble. Get ready for a Southern showdown. The residents of Cottonwood, Kentucky are sent into a tizzy when the Culinary Channel comes to town to film an episode of Southern Home Cookin' with celebrity chef Frank Von Lee. Especially Sheriff Kenni Lowry. Her mama's award-winning chicken pot pie is what brought Frank to town, and they don't make hair in the South bigger than her mama's...
Author
Series
Kenni Lowry mystery volume 7
Publisher
Henery Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sweet as honey, soured by murder. Everyone in Cottonwood loves the new bakery, Sweet Shop. Until a Cottonwood resident is found dead with a half-eaten donut in her hand. Sheriff Kenni Lowry has her hands full. With a new murder in town and a new deputy to train, she's not sure if she's ever gonna get this booger solved. Sheriff Elmer Sims comes to the rescue stepping up as Kenni's ghost deputy. As the ex-dead-now-ghost-deputy and Kenni's Poppa, there's...
Author
Series
Kenni Lowry mystery volume 6
Publisher
Henery Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Don't get your tinsel in a tangle ... It's Christmastime in Cottonwood, Kentucky, and Sheriff Kenni Lowry is determined to keep the peace. Vivian Lowry, Kenni's Mama, is having a Christmas-size hissy fit because Kenni plans to spend Christmas in Chicago with her Deputy Sheriff-turned-boyfriend Finn Vincent and his family. Plus, the snowstorm of the century is headed right toward Cottonwood, leaving the residents in a frantic frenzy and potentially...
Author
Series
Kenni Lowry mystery volume 5
Publisher
Henery Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. And doesn't our Sheriff Kenni Lowry know that. Well, she knows a lot of things. Lucy Lowell takes great pride in writing negative reviews in the local newpaper for anything that does not go her way. When Lucy is found dead, it appears to be from natural causes. But Sheriff Kenni Lowry knows there is more to it because the ghost of her grandfather, the ex-sheriff, is standing over the body. His...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky-where nothing is normal. It's Labor Day weekend in Normal, and if you know anything about camping and RVing, you know it's one of the busiest times of the year. Unfortunately, Daniel Boone National Park is in danger of being closed due to a drought and local businesses are scrambling for ideas to survive a possible shutdown. Happy Trails Campground is at the center of a murder in which campers as well as locals are suspects....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, where nothing is normal. Librarian Abby Fawn is star struck when her favorite romance author, Nadine White, has rented a cozy camper at the Happy Trails Campground for the winter months. Abby is devastated to find out Nadine White is nothing like the person she portrays in interviews or on social media. In fact, Nadine White is not nice at all, and Abby lets her feelings known that she thinks Nadine is a fraud . . . after...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, where nothing is normal! Mae West, owner of Happy Trails Campground, never thought she would become an actress like her namesake. Calling herself an actress might be a far stretch as she plays a minor role in the local Civil War reenactment Battle at Camp Wildcat. When the reenactment doesn't go as planned, not one but two of the town's folks aren't playing dead . . . they were murdered! Come to find out there was a prison...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky where NOTHING is normal. Alicia Becker shows up at the screen door of The Milkery beaten, bruised, and claims to be one of Mary Elizabeth Moberly's foster children. Mae West's suspicion of why Alicia is there turns to an investigation after Alicia is found on a nearby hiking trail standing over the lifeless body of Craig Sutton. Who is Craig Sutton? Craig Sutton is Alicia Becker's con-ex-boyfriend. Mae and the Laundry Club...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"She talks so much, she should have two sets of teeth." I haven't seen Stanley Shelton since the flamingo keychain with the campervan key dangled from his fingertips as he ripped the Maserati keys out of my grip after my ex-now-dead husband left me broke and penniless, until now. Stanley claims the Diamond Swamp Mob is after him and he needs my help. Something about my past, but I didn't take him too seriously until someone was murdered in Stanley's...
10) Stamped Out
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Everyone in Sugar Creek Gap has tried to fix up widow and beloved mail carrier Bernadette Davis on several dates. They say she has to be lonely. What they don't know is how Bernadette's life is filled . . . filled with everyone's hidden secrets and obsessions. After all, she does deliver their mail and hears all the dirty laundry southern folks love to sweep secrets under the rug. While on her route, Bernadette finds out the beloved Sugar Creek Gap...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Amazon all star author and USA Today bestselling author Tonya Kappes brings you southern and quirky characters in her mystery series. Her stories are charged with humor, friendship, family, and life in small southern towns. Mae West is bound and determined to stay in shape for her wedding day and with all the delicious southern dessert Mary Elizabeth is serving for Thanksgiving Mae has joined the local running group to race in Thanksgiving's annual...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky-where nothing is normal. Who served up the murder at the Normal Diner? A beloved resident of Normal, Kentucky is found dead on the floor of the Normal Diner, leaving the entire town on high alert. Faster than the short order cook can say order up . . . the laundry ladies are in the scene. News spreads fast about the murder and Detective Hank Sharp is hungry for answers. Mae West along with the Laundry Club ladies come up...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest, Mae West has spent the last few years bringing the rundown Happy Trails Campground and the small southern and cozy town of Normal, Kentucky back to a thriving economic community. Mae's efforts haven't gone unnoticed. Not only is Happy Trails Campground in the running to be named Campground Hospitality of the Daniel Boone National Park, but she landed the coveted Paddle Fest kayak competition that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Discover the southern life of Bernadette Butler, along with the eccentric and lovable citizens, along with all the fur babies, who live in Sugar Creek Gap in this new southern cozy mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Tonya Kappes. Mail Carrier Bernadette Butler makes sure she checks on all of her elderly customers on her mail carrier route during the colder months. It makes her feel good and lets face it, she's trying to keep her mind off...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Mae West, a far cry from the Hollywood actress, has been thrown for a loop. Her plush lifestyle in the big city of New York comes to a screeching halt after the FBI raids her mansion and arrests her husband, Paul West, for a Ponzi scheme that rips people out of millions of dollars. Mae finds herself homeless, friendless, and penniless. All hope isn't lost . . . the only thing Mae got to keep that the government didn't seize is a tourist camp ground,...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY WITH A SMIDGEN OF HOMICIDE When the owner of the local zip line is found dead on the ride, the small town of Normal, Kentucky, is in a state of shock. With the local ranger and sheriff at a loss for leads, it falls to the Laundry Club Ladies-a group of nosy sleuths led by Mae West-to crack the case. Mae is more than happy to put her nose to the grindstone and get to work, especially since it gives her a chance to escape her pesky...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The last thing Normal needs is Dottie Swagger or Mary Elizabeth Moberly as the Ms. Blossom Festival Queen. I thought I had my hands full when Dottie Swaggert and Mary Elizabeth Moberly entered the Ms. Blossom Queen Beauty Pageant for seniors but when I witnessed a fight at the festival between Carrie Patillo and Jason Dresser, Carrie's daughter's accused killer, I knew Jason was wrongfully accused for the murder and set up. How was I going to prove...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
As we say in the south beauty is only skin deep but ugly . . . now that runs straight to the bone. When Miss Daniel Boone Days is murdered and our good friend Helen Pyle, owner of Cute-icles beauty salon, is standing over our beauty queen with a gun, lets just say Helen didn't giddy up on out of there. Nope. She was hauled down to the sheriff's department and booked for murder. Ranger Tucker Pyle is taken off the case because let's just say he knows...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Southern Hospitality with a Smidgen of Homicide I'm a handyman in the Daniel Boone National Park. My main employer is Mae West at the Happy Trails Campground. When I got a phone call to take down some trees on this guy's property for a side hustle, I jumped at the chance. That's one of the biggest money making jobs around these parts. Unfortunately I got hauled off to jail after I was accused of being part of an illegal logging crew. Simple enough,...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Southern hospitality with a smidgen of homicide USA Today bestselling author Tonya Kappes brings you southern and quirky characters in her mystery series. Her stories are charged with humor, friendship, family and life in small southern towns. Welcome to Normal, Kentucky where nothing is normal! When Hank Sharpe asked me in the laundry club ladies to join him in an undercover investigation to help find a missing person, me and ladies grabbed our sleuthing...