Canyons, Caravans, and Cadavers by Tonya Kappes

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Canyons, Caravans, & Cadavers

by Tonya Kappes

Series: Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery #6
Series Rating:
on March 25, 2019
Genres: Mystery
Pages: 320
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Also in this series: Beaches, Bungalows, and Burglaries, Deserts, Driving, and Derelicts, Forests, Fishing, & Forgery, Christmas, Criminals, and Campers, Motorhomes, Maps, & Murder, Hitches, Hideouts, and Homicides, Assailants, Asphalt & Alibis, Valleys, Vehicles & Victims, Sunsets, Sabbatical and Scandal, Tents, Trails and Turmoil

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky~ where nothing is normal. A Campers and Criminal Mystery Series is another brainchild of USA Today Bestselling Author Tonya Kappes. If you love her quirky southern characters and small town charm with a mystery to solve, you're going to love her new cozy mystery series!
When the principal of Normal High School asks Mae West to teach a semester on small town economics, since she helped bring the thriving economy in Normal, Kentucky when she used her brilliant ideas to bring the Happy Trails Campground back to life, Mae is thrilled and happy to teach the young people.
But when a fellow teacher and archery Coach Roger Carlson, is found stone-cold dead, facedown in one of Happy Trails Campground campers with an arrow sticking out of his back, it puts a damper on the thriving campground when tourists cancel their reservations and Mae's excitement to teach.
Mae's hankering to snoop into the coach's private life and find out exactly why he was renting a camper in Happy Trails and not living at home with his young wife. Her efforts don’t leave her short on suspects. Especially, since Mae uncovered many unhappy parents who had relied on an archery scholarship as their child's ticket to get out of Normal and go to college.
Mae has to be careful or she just might find an arrow with her name written on it.

Mae West is at it again! She is solving another mystery!

Canyons, Caravans, and Cadavers by Tonya Kappes is another great cozy that has fabulous characters and a marvelous mystery filled with southern charm. We are back with Mae West, the Laundry Club girls, and Hank in Normal, Kentucky.

What I like:

• Written in the first-person with Mae West, our sleuth, being the narrator. I enjoy getting inside Mae’s head and seeing how she figures things out, especially when it comes to the mystery.
• I still like that the main character runs her own campground and has fixed it up as well. Is anyone interested in some glamping?
• Mae and Hank are dating in this book. They make an adorable couple.
• Mae is becoming a fixture of the community.

What I don’t like:

The one thing that I didn’t like was that I didn’t figure out who the killer was and I’m still stumped by how it could be the person that it was. I totally missed the clues, and there are lots of red herrings.

Five Star

Canyons, Caravans, and Cadavers by Tonya Kappes has a marvelous mystery, and this book is another great one in the Campers and Criminals series. I can’t wait for the next book, Hitches, Hideouts, & Homicides to come on in late May. I am giving it a five-star rating and recommending it to anyone that likes cozy mysteries.

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Canyons, Caravans, and Cadavers by Tonya Kappes.

Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

Reading this book contributed to these challenges:

• 2019 Cloak and Dagger
• 2019 Craving For Cozies Reading Challenge
• 2019 Cruisin' Thru The Cozies Reading Challenge
• 2019 Goodreads Reading Challenge
• 2019 New Release Challenge

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