Author: Tonya Kappes

Scene of the Grind is the first in USA TODAY bestselling author Tonya Kappes’ new A Killer Coffee Mystery Series. The series takes place in the cozy southern fictional tourist town of Honey Springs, Kentucky. Roxanne Bloom (her friends, though few call her Roxie) quit her job as a lawyer, divorced her cheating husband, and moved to the quaint town of Honey Springs, Kentucky where she’d spent many … spent many of her teenage summers visiting her eccentric and fun-loving Aunt Maxi. Roxy follows her dream and opens The Bean Hive, Honey Springs first coffee house on the town’s newly…

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Emma Lee Raines sees dead peopleProprietor of the Eternal Slumber Funeral Home, Emma Lee can see, hear, and talk to ghosts of murdered folks. And when her high school nemesis is found dead, Jade Lee Peel is the same old mean girl—trying to come between Emma Lee and her hot boyfriend, Sheriff Jack Henry Ross, all over again. There’s only one way for Emma Lee to be free of the trash-talking … Lee to be free of the trash-talking ghost—solve the murder so the former prom queen can cross over. But the last thing Jade Lee wants is to leave…

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When a murder and a jewelry store robbery occur on the same day, sheriff Kenni Lowry must uncover the truth — but can she keep Cottonwood, Kentucky, safe with the help of her ghostly predecessor? A quirky cozy mystery from a USA Today bestselling author!

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Bubble. . .Bubble. . . Psychic June Heal’s homeopathic cure shop, A Charming Cure, is the most popular shop in the unusual little town of Whispering Falls, Kentucky. Cures and Trouble. . . June is about to learn she has more than psychic abilities when she attends Hidden Hall A Spiritualist University, leaving her shop in the hands of handsome sheriff Oscar Park. Hidden Hall has an internal … Park. Hidden Hall has an internal war between the Good-Siders and the Dark-Siders, putting June in the middle. Magic Stirs. . . Hidden Hall is riddled with every type of spiritualist.…

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The prodigal father returns—but this ghost is no holy spiritWhen she runs into her friend’s deadbeat dad at the local deli, undertaker Emma Lee Raines can’t wait to tell Mary Anna Hardy that he’s back in Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky, after five long years. Cephus Hardy may have been the town drunk, but he didn’t disappear on an epic bender like everyone thought: He was murdered. And he’s heard that … heard that Emma Lee’s been helping lost souls move on to that great big party in the sky.Why do ghosts always bother Emma Lee at the worst times? Her granny’s…

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There’s a ghost on the loose—and a fox in the henhouseFour years ago, the Eternal Slumber Funeral Home put Chicken Teater in the ground. Now undertaker Emma Lee Raines is digging him back up. The whole scene is bad for business, especially with her granny running for mayor and a big festival setting up in town. But ever since Emma Lee started seeing ghosts, Chicken’s been pestering her to figure … to figure out who killed him.With her handsome boyfriend, Sheriff Jack Henry Ross, busy getting new forensics on the old corpse, Emma Lee has time to look into her…

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Funeral director Emma Lee believes she’s seen it all. But when the pesky ghost of gossip queen Ruthie reveals she was murdered, Emma must catch the killer — or remain haunted forever… A hilarious whodunit from a USA Today bestselling author!

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2013 eFestival of Words Fantasy Novel Nominee Bubble… Bubble… lot of secrets. From talking snow globes to whispering animals not to mention a few sprinkles of fairy dust, June realizes Whispering Falls is more magical than she thought… literally. Magic stirs… June discovers she was born into a family of psychics, and her homeopathic cures truly are magical. Unfortunately, they are not magical enough to save her from being the number one murder suspect when a member of the community that she had just had a disagreement with shows up face down in the lake with June’s lucky charm in…

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