Tonya Kappes

I am so excited to be going back to Sleepy Hollow. It’s been seven years since we hung out with Emma Lee and Jack Henry.

Truly it is such an honor to bring you Chapter One and get ready for release day!!

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When I first imagined Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky, I did not want it to feel like a backdrop that only existed when Emma Lee needed somewhere to find a body. I wanted it to feel like a real town with routines, rivalries, traditions, and people who had known one another long enough to remember every bad haircut, broken engagement, and public mistake. The murder mystery migh...

One of the things I knew I wanted to get right in A Ghostly Alibi was the way a Southern town responds when someone dies. There are flowers, church ladies, whispered memories, casseroles, and enough desserts to feed people who were never even invited. Grief may bring everyone through the front door, but food is what keeps them sitting together long enough to tell the ...

Fifteen years.

I honestly had to sit with that number for a minute.

It’s been about fifteen years since I first wrote the Divorced Divas mysteries, and when I recently went back to these books, I found myself thinking about the author I was when I wrote them.

My career was still so new.

I was figuring out publishing.

I was learning what kind...

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