Tonya Kappes

Have you ever picked up a book and realized later that you couldn’t have read it at a better time? Not because it was a new release or because everyone was talking about it, but because somehow that particular story landed in your hands during a particular season of your life. Years later, you might not remember every character’s name or even all the details of the pl...

Why We Love Solving the Murder Before the Sleuth Does

There is a very particular kind of confidence that only comes from reading a mystery. You are forty pages into the book, you have met six suspects, you possess almost no actual evidence, and somehow you are completely convinced you know who did it.

Then somebody says one suspicious sentence in the next chapt...