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Tonya Kappes Tonya Kappes

Book Type: Novel

Blossoms, BBQ, & Blackmail

Campground cozy mystery small town murder.

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, where beauty pageants, front porch gossip, and murder go hand in hand.

Mae West thought the biggest problem at the annual Blossom Festival would be keeping Dottie Swaggert and Mary Elizabeth Moberly from destroying each other during the Ms. Blossom Queen senior beauty pageant.

She was wrong.

After witnessing a heated confrontation between Carrie Patillo and Jason Dresser—the man accused of murdering Carrie’s daughter—Mae becomes convinced Jason is being framed. Determined to uncover the truth before the trial begins, Mae gathers the ever-resourceful Laundry Club Ladies to start digging for clues.

But just as the ladies uncover evidence of blackmail and rush to warn Jason, they discover the killer got there first.

Now the investigation turns even more dangerous.

As the Blossom Festival fills Normal with barbecue, gossip, and small-town chaos, Mae and the Laundry Club Ladies must untangle secrets, lies, and hidden motives before another body turns up.

And if solving murder wasn’t enough, Bobby Ray Bond’s long-lost mother is suddenly coming to town, bringing a whole new layer of trouble to Happy Trails Campground.

Welcome to Normal—where nothing is ever normal.

Perfect for readers who love:

🏕️ Campground cozy mysteries
👭 The beloved Laundry Club Ladies
🏡 Small-town Southern gossip and charm
🔎 Amateur sleuths solving twisty murders
😂 Cozy humor, friendship, and family drama

Return to Happy Trails Campground for another cozy mystery filled with Southern sass, festival chaos, and secrets hiding behind every camper door.

Jackets, Jack-O-Lantern, & Justice

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 are warm and at night you need a light sweater to enjoy the campfire or snuggle up in a cozy blanket.
The campground is full and the campers are excited to participate in Normal’s annual Pumpkin Carving Carnival.
It’s a little spooky seeing the hundreds jack-o-lantern faces all light up with toothless or toothy smiles.
It’s the dead body among them that chills me to the bone.

Checkered Thief

Brassy, sassy southern babe Laurel London is back!

Once again, the entire Laurel London crew is in action, including Trixie Turner, and trying to figure out who is the mastermind behind the Glitz and Glam casino heist.

The heist king blackmails Laurel into believing Laurel’s long time best friend, Derek Smitherman, will be on the other end of the vigilante gun if she doesn’t help in stealing the money using her history of petty crime.

Cursed with a disastrous new task of putting her amateur sleuth skills to work and an increasing sense that it’s really time to get a new job, Laurel spirals and tumbles through CHECKERED THIEF with all the wisecracks and pace her fans have come to expect.

Checkered Past

Laurel London is one tough cookie. . .Convict Willie Ray Bowman escapes from prison just days away from his date with “Old Sparky,” the Kentucky state federal prison electric chair. Laurel hasn’t seen Willie Ray since the day he left her picking up the pieces of her broken heart in Walnut Grove, Kentucky. Can Laurel put her bitter, angry, feelings aside and help Willie Ray prove his innocence before the FBI find him?