Tonya Kappes

Southern Fried by Tonya Kappes
Kenni Lowry series #2. Southern paranormal cozy mystery series. Best read in series order.
Another body is found in Cottonwood and Sheriff Kenni Lowry is on the case. Unfortunately the body is in a patch of prize winning tomatoes with barbed wire fence marks around the ankle so Kenni needs to work fast or the property owner won’t wait to harvest the tomatoes, body or not. The fierce cook-off competition has Kenni, her ghostly guidance and new deputy sheriff all working to find the killer before the next victim is cold.

Amusing southern style cozy that moves quickly as the town regulars do their quirky thing.
🎧 I prefer to listen to this author via audiobook. The performance was done by Hillary Huber who does a great job with the character voices and the southern slang. I did have to increase the speed to 1.6 to more closely match a Midwest conversation.… (more)

A Charming Fatality by Tonya Kappes
Magical Cures mystery series #7. Cozy. Paranormal witch, small town series. Best read in series order.
June Heal is the first witch in Whispering Falls to take their magic nationally. She is doing it solely to help the town since the last economic downturn had been hard on the small town. When June arrives at the factory and finds them using the wrong bottles, and she finds a body, June realizes she’s going to have to help find the killer so that magic isn’t exposed to the world. Plus she needs to figure out what day to have her wedding.

Fun cozy revisiting the town’s quirky characters. 🎧 Best format is by audiobook. This series is performed by Karen Savage who portrays the characters with humor and a bit of small town quaint. While I did speed up the playback, it wasn’t as fast as usual since she speaks with a faster tempo than most performers I’ve heard lately.
I will finish this series as time allows.
Fun, no angst, plenty of bodies for a cozy but no gore. Entertaining afternoon reads.… (more)