Tonya Kappes

Mae West is getting settled into the RV lifestyle as the owner of a campground in Normal, Kentucky. Happy Trails Campground, located in Daniel Boone National Park, has started to attract late summer vacationing families who love to hike, swim, fish, and enjoy being outdoors. Betts Hager, owner...

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...

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...

Small-town Southern cozy mystery with a sheriff sleuth Something borrowed, something blue . . . and something deadly. Sheriff Kenni Lowry’s wedding day should be about vows, cake, and finally catching her breath. Instead, her wedding night is interrupted by a visit from her ghostly Poppa—and...

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky—where Mae West faces a ghostly guest list and one chilling murder she can't ignore . . . Mae West is no stranger to mystery. As owner of Happy Trails Campground and partner to park ranger Hank Sharp, she's kept Normal, Kentucky running as smoothly as a campfire...

Jackets Jack-O-Lantern and Justice: The bursts of orange, yellow, green, and red pop on the falling leaves, creating a colorful path along the trails for all guests at Happy Trails Campground is a real life picture that could never be captured by a camera. It's a dead body that chills everyone...

When famous bounty hunter Colt Lincoln is found dead in the Smelly Dog Groomer, clutching a sponge curler that belongs to Dottie Swaggert, Mae West and the Laundry Club Ladies know they've got a real doozy of a case on their hands. Despite Colt's catfishing ways and the fact that he'd parked his...

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...

When a prominent businessman is found dead in his office, Sheriff Kenni Lowry is thrust into another murder investigation. At first, it seems like an open-and-shut case, but as Kenni digs deeper, she uncover a web of secrets and lies that suggests this was no simple case of robbery gone wrong....

Tonya Kappes presents Books 19-21 in the Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery series Book 19: Wildlife, Warrants, & Weapons: It just creams Mae's corn when her handy man, Henry Bryant, is accused of illegal logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest. It burnt her up when he was accused of killing...

SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY WITH A SMIDGEN OF HOMICIDE Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, a small town in the Daniel Boone National Forest and Happy Trails Campground, where the annual Christmas activities are in full swing. But behind the twinkling lights and festive cheer lies a sinister secret. When a...

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...

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. It is fall in Normal, Kentucky, and the town is...

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...

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!...

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...

Welcome to Normal where nothing is normal! Join Mae West and the Laundry Club Ladies as they cha cha and twirl their way around Happy Trails Campground as they put on some sleuthing dance shoes to bring closure to this southern and fun cozy Valentine's mystery. When I begged Hank Sharp to take...

Around here we say bless her heart and sometimes it's just not in a good way. Take Neva Hudson for instance, bless her heart, she's the town gossip, not to mention someone who likes to toot her own horn. Two toots too many 'cause bless her heart, someone has strangled Neva and left her for dead...

Let me be the first person to welcome you to Normal, Kentucky, located in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest. I'm Mae West, the owner of Happy Trails Campground. Fall at the campground is my favorite time of the year. The bursts of orange, yellow, green, and red pop on the falling...

Wedding bells are ringing all over Sugar Creek Gap for Bernadette Butler and Mac Tabor. Folks in Sugar Creek Gap, Kentucky, are so excited for Bernadette Butler! She's getting married to Mac Tabor, the man of her dreams! Wedding week is nerve-wracking enough, but add to that a murder of a local...