Tonya Kappes
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
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 . . ....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
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...
7) Stamped Out
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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.
It is fall in Normal, Kentucky, and the town is celebrating the season with a Bourbon Festival.
Mae West is trying to enjoy the festival and a night out with Hank. While trying to dodge the one question...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
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
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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 local delivery driver is found murdered in Seymore's Candy Cane Factory, suspicion quickly falls on the eccentric cast of characters who call Normal home. From...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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 in of all places . . . the church's Christmas play.
Trust me when I say there's no shortage of suspects since her tongue lashed a few too many lies about...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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 leaves, creating a colorful path along the trails for all of my guests at my campground is a real life picture that could never be captured by a camera.
Days...
15) Return to Sender
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Bernadette Butler has a penchant for solving murders while keeping her ear low to the ground listening to gossip while on her mail carrier route.
Bernie tries to deliver a return to sender package and a certified letter to a local man and finds him dead.
When the death turns up suspicious, Bernie uses her amateur sleuthing skills along with the gossipy help of the Front Porch Ladies to cross reference who exactly in their small southern town stamped...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
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
Edition
Unabridged
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
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
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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 dance lessons to celebrate Valentine's Day, I knew I was getting more than I had bargained for. But when a dancer's dead body shows up at the height of the...