(A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mystery Series Book 14)
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.
Mae West is busy this Christmas season. She’s running around Normal getting the town ready for the first Winter Festival, which she hopes will become an annual event for the tourist town. The freshly fallen snow sure does make the Daniel Boone National Park beautiful and ready for Santa’s arrival, but it also makes the curvy roads through the forest very slick.
Unfortunately, Mae finds out just how slick the roads are after her car slides off the road and hits a tree, putting Mae into a deep coma. Mae is one of the lucky patients who does wake up and happy to celebrate Christmas with family and friends. One of the patients in the emergency room with Mae didn’t die that night of natural causes, and Hank Sharp has himself a new homicide case on his hands.
Mae starts having memories about the fire that took her family and a memory of a murder plot that she thinks happened when she was in her coma. Only, she’s having a hard time distinguishing between the two memories and the clues seem to have blurred lines. There’s one thing she does know for sure, both incidents come with clues that neither were accidents. Once again, Mae West with the help of the Laundry Club Ladies put on their ameatur sleuth cap to help solve the mystery of the murders before the killer sends her Christmas gift she can’t return.
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(A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mystery Series Book 13)
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.
Mae West is bound to prove she deserves the seat she was appointed to on the National Park Committee when she brings a big car show to Normal during the slower fall month. But, when Wendell Holliday’s body is found dead in one of Happy Trails Campground bungalows and one of the rentable campers is burning to the ground, Mae along with the help of the Laundry Club Ladies once again put on their sleuthing caps to figure out who is trying to sabotage Mae and her new position on the committee.
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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.
Everyone in Normal is excited for the Hoe Down to celebrate the opening of the new Old Train Station motel grand opening. The evening comes to an abrupt end when a lightning storm knocks out all the power.
At least, that’s what appears to have knocked out the electricity. But things aren’t always as they appear. Mae West has a way of sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong and finds herself in a dangerous situation when she finds a treasure map that leads to more than just treasure. . . a dead body!
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See what readers and reviewers are saying about Tonya Kappes’s books:
“Romance, a lovable bunch of eccentrics, and a collection of recipes with murder most foul.” –Kirkus “Scrumptious… Fans of culinary cozies will have fun.” –Publishers Weekly
“A sweet Southern mystery with a delightful plot and quirky characters who quickly make you feel at home.” –San Francisco Book Review”Hitches, Hideouts & Homicide will have you guessing until the very end in this quirky-character-filled whodunit. Ride along with Mae West as she overcomes any obstacle to bring justice back to Normal, Kentucky.” Jessie B., Copy Editor, Red Adept Editing
“Fresh and witty, Hitches, Hideouts and Homicide is another win for Mae West with her clever determination to discover the truth.” Amanda K., Proofreader, Red Adept EditingTami Wells Silva “All of her books are everything you could ever want in a book series. Great stories full of adventure, mystery, romance and always some fun. Each book will make you want more and give you the feels we all love to get from a great writer.”Ginger Heruska Tonya is a wonderful author. All of her series are enjoyable. Her ghost story line is exciting as well. She is a coffee addict (and I mean that in the nicest sense) and comes up with the funniest post that always involve coffee somehow. I also love all the interactions she has with her readers. I know it allows me to feel like I’m really friends with her. I look for her posts every day. She is my #1 favorite cozy mystery writer.Monica Boudreau Love her books. She has just the right amount of mystery, wit and love story.Brenda Tannehill Turner I love reading Tonya Kappes books! They are filled with mystery humor, drama, nostalgia and bites of beginning romance. She is definitely a keeper!Tara Tara Tonya is an amazing author! Her books are wonderful and she is so much fun! Her constant interaction with readers makes her a #1 favorite to so many! Thank you, Tonya!Susan Angy Clark Good character development. Plenty of laughter and suspense. I was surprised by the whodunits and why. Love these booksDonna Dean MiccoI love Tonya’s books. I also enjoy how she interacts with her readers and all the great contests she has. I always look forward to her newsletters. Ruthann McCoy She puts you in the small town, and really brings the characters alive. They are real. They are funny. They are lovable. And I love them all!Kim Perry Gayheart Absolutely great author and person. she really knows how to connect with her fans.JoAn Varner Tonya Kappes is an amazing author and woman. Her books are filled with southern charm, cozy mysteries and likable characters that make you want to move to these small towns so you can continue to spend time with them. She interacts with her readers on a daily basis and allows us to share life with all of it’s ups and downs with her.
About the Author
Tonya Kappes has written more than fifteen novels and four novellas, all of which have graced numerous bestseller lists, including USA Today. Best known for stories charged with emotion and humor and filled with flawed characters, her novels have garnered reader praise and glowing critical reviews. Kappes lives with her husband, two very spoiled schnauzers, and one ex-stray cat in northern Kentucky. Now that her boys are teenagers, she writes full time but can be found at all her sons high school games with a pencil and paper in hand.
This Fourth of July, someone is going out with a BANG!
Fireworks aren’t the only thing exploding this Fourth of July, I’m trading my sparklers for bullets. *Includes RECIPE!*
Look, I never planned to spend America’s birthday investigating a murder instead of celebrating it. But when food critic face-plants into his corn pudding and drops dead at Honey Hollow’s Taste of America Festival, what’s a reluctant hitwoman to do?
I’m Effie Canelli, and my holiday to-do list just got complicated—decorate our booth for the patriotic competition, avoid assassinating the mayor (direct orders from my Uncle Jimmy, the family’s resident crime lord), and oh yeah—figure out who poisoned Larry before Cooper arrests me for another murder I didn’t commit.
My hot detective boyfriend Cooper is officially investigating, but between food truck vendors with deadly secrets, my meddling family turning every situation into a three-ring circus, and a growing list of suspects who wanted Larry permanently off the menu, I’m knee-deep in red, white, and blue chaos.
So grab your apple pie and join me in Honey Hollow, where the fireworks are explosive, the family drama is even more explosive, and someone is serving up more than just patriotic cuisine this Independence Day. Trust me—this Fourth of July murder spree is the kind of fireworks show that’ll blow your mind! I guess it’s true what they say—living in Honey Hollow can be murder.
A laugh-out-loud standalone cozy mystery by New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestseller Addison Moore
A MURDER IN THE MIX SPINOFF! Includes RECIPE! Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison’s books, “…easy, frothy fun!” Humor with a side 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 the principal of Normal High School asks Mae West to teach a semester on small town economics, since she helped bring the thriving economy in Normal, Kentucky when she used her brilliant ideas to bring the Happy Trails Campground back to life.
Mae is thrilled and happy to teach the young people. But when a fellow teacher and archery Coach Roger Carlson, is found stone-cold dead, facedown in one of Happy Trails Campground campers with an arrow sticking out of his back, it puts a damper on the thriving campground when tourists cancel their reservations and Mae’s excitement to teach.Mae’s hankering to snoop into the coach’s private life and find out exactly why he was renting a camper in Happy Trails and not living at home with his young wife.
Her efforts don’t leave her short on suspects. Especially, since Mae uncovered many unhappy parents who had relied on an archery scholarship and perfect ACT scores as their child’s ticket to get out of Normal and go to college. Mae has to be careful or she just might find an arrow with her name written on it.
