Ghostly Southern Mystery

The Ghostly Southern Mystery is a series of novels by Tonya Kappes, the USA Today bestselling mystery writer. While a popular author with over 40 titles under her name, the Ghostly Southern Mystery series of novels is one of her most popular works yet. A Ghostly Undertaking, a fan favorite and first novel in the series and was published in 2013. Due to the popularity of the series, the author went on to write five more titles with the sixth in the series, A Ghostly Mortality, coming out in February 2017. The novels are about Emmy Lee Raines, a funeral home owner in the small town of Sleepy Hollow in rural Kentucky. After a freak accident in which a falling plastic Santa Claus hit her on the head, the protagonist has developed the paranormal ability to speak with dead people. Given her ability to speak with the dead, she often finds herself the only person with the ability to solve local murder mysteries that have baffled the police and everyone else in the small town. Over the course of the series, Lee Raines has to deal with ghosts at the most inappropriate of times who want her to bring justice to their murderers.