Tonya Kappes has 27 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is Hitches, Hideouts, & Homicide.
Address for Murder
Summary
Discover the southern life of Bernadette Butler, along with the eccentric and lovable citizens, along with all the fur babies, who live in Sugar Creek Gap in this new southern cozy mystery series by USA Today best-selling author Tonya Kappes. Mail Carrier Bernadette Butler makes sure she checks on all of her elderly customers on her mail carrier route during the colder months. It makes her feel good and lets face it, she's trying to keep her mind off the feelings she's having for her deceased husband's best friend, Mac Tabor. Which makes putting everyone before her is easy. Until she notices one particular customer's dog is on the loose, Bernadette takes the dog back and something isn't right. The door is open. Bernadette goes in to check on her customer only to find him murdered! Bernadette knows someone knows something about the murder in the small knit community. Now that she's helped solve one murder, she can't resist to try her hand at it again...of course not without the help of the Front Porch Ladies and Vince!
©2019 Tonya Kappes (P)2020 Tantor
Kickbacks, Kayaks, & Kidnapping
Summary
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 that secures the winner a spot on the Olympic team. When champion and Olympian kayaker Bryce Anderson turns over in his kayak dead...there's more than paddling going on, and his death has been ruled a homicide. News of Bryce's death spreads fast and Happy Trails becomes the center of bad publicity. Come camping with Mae West and the Laundry Club Ladies as they put their sleuthing, well-nosy caps on and put their skills to the test, so they can figure out who killed the Olympian and save Happy Trails from financial ruin.
©2020 Tonya Kappes (P)2021 Tantor
Valleys, Vehicles & Victims
Summary
When a wedding party show up at Happy Trails Campground, Mae West is thrilled. She's all things girly and excited to assist the bride in all things southern, which is what the bride is hankering for. Mae recognizes the parents of the bride when they arrive. They are from her past. The past she's been desperately trying to escape...especially since it was the time she was married to Paul West. This just isn't any couple, it's the owners of the famous Moonbucks Coffee Company. The wedding is set to take place in the beautiful wedding barn at the Old Train Station Motel, only Gert Hobson, the owner of Trails Coffee Shop, who will be providing the coffee for the happy couple, has decided there's no way she's going to help out with Tom Moon's daughter's wedding since she claims that years ago Tom Moon stole her coffee blend recipe known today as the special Moonbucks blend. A public fight between Gert and Tom leaves Gert a prime suspect after a member of the wedding party is found dead at the wedding venue. There might not be a happily ever after for the bride to be or Gert Hobson if Mae West doesn't solve the murder before the wedding party's RV rolls out of town.
©2019 Tonya Kappes (P)2020 Tantor
Tents, Trails, & Turmoil
Summary
Mae West knows tourism and nothing stops tourists like a dead body found in the Daniel Boone National Park. Unfortunately, Yaley Woodard, a local tour guide, is found dead at Happy Trails Campground. Mae is determined to put her amateur sleuth skills to investigate along with the help of the Laundry Club gals. But when Yaley's past ends up being tied to forest trails and local Joel Grassel, Mae realizes Yaley's death has caused much more turmoil than she'd originally thought - and the killer might want to close the tourism in the Daniel Boone National Park for good.
©2020 Tonya Kappes (P)2020 Tantor
Gear, Grills, & Guns
Summary
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.
©2020 Tonya Kappes (P)2021 Tantor
Sunsets, Sabbatical, & Scandal
Summary
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky - where nothing is normal. Who served up the murder at the Normal Diner? A beloved resident of Normal, Kentucky is found dead on the floor of the Normal Diner, leaving the entire town on high alert. Faster than the short order cook can say order up...the laundry ladies are in the scene. News spreads fast about the murder and Detective Hank Sharp is hungry for answers. Mae West along with the Laundry Club ladies come up with a list of suspects and the evidence is piling up faster than a juicy double cheeseburger. Who murdered the beloved citizen? Was it a hit to score some extra lunch money?
©2020 Tonya Kappes (P)2020 Tantor
All She Wrote
Summary
Mail carrier Bernadette (Bernie) Butler, along with the Front Porch Ladies, are curious about their new neighbor, Courtney Gaines, who is the niece of Florence Gaines, the wealthiest widow in Sugar Creek Gap. Florence lets it be known that she is seeing Zeke Grey, which doesn't set well with the Front Porch Ladies. They were all in competition for Zeke's attention. Shortly after learning that Florence and Zeke got married, while delivering the mail, Bernie overhears what could be the first marital spat. As Bernie is happily awaiting the birth of her first grandchild, her best friend shares a feeling that something isn't right between Bernie's son, Grady, and her daughter-in-law, Julia. Grady seems to be very chummy with Courtney, which has Bernie singing high praise of Julia and how there is a new baby on the way. When Florence turns up dead in mulch, coupled with what Sheriff Angela Hafley mentioned, Bernie can't help but want to get involved, and when Sheriff Angela requests Bernie to be a "snoop consultant", she readily agrees. Bernie's snooping leads her to information that hits a little too close to home and Bernie enlists her best friend, Iris, for help.
©2020 Tonya Kappes (P)2020 Tantor