The Skeleton Rides a Horse and Other Stories

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>Toni L.P. Kelner has been writing thoughtful mysteries for over thirty years. She won an Agatha Award for her short story Sleeping With the Plush and her story Baby Trap was selected for inclusion in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 </em><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>edited by S.A. Cosby and Steph Cha. Kelner's short fiction has also been nominated for the Anthony the Macavity and the Derringer. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>Toni L.P. Kelner and Leigh Perry are two authors in one.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>As Toni L.P. Kelner she's the author of eleven novels: eight Laura Fleming mysteries set in Byerly a small North Carolina town filled with Laura's extended family members and three Where are they now? mysteries about a freelance entertainment reporter who specializes in stories about the formerly famous. She's also the co-editor of seven urban fantasy anthologies with Charlaine Harris. Kelner has won the Agatha Award and an RT BookClub Lifetime Achievement Award and has been nominated for the Anthony the Macavity and the Derringer. Her story Baby Trap was selected for inclusion in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 </em><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>edited by S.A. Cosby and Steph Cha.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>As Leigh Perry she writes the Family Skeleton series about Georgia Thackery an adjunct English professor and her family's unusual family skeleton. Which is a skeleton. Named Sid. Sid walks talks and tells bad bone jokes. Together Georgia and Sid solve crimes. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>Both Leigh and Toni write short stories and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>The Skeleton Rides a Horse and Other Stories </em><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>is their first team-up. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(242 239 221 1); color: rgba(61 8 27 0.75)>No matter which name she's using she lives north of Boston with fellow writer Stephen P. Kelner Jr. and their daughters: a graphic artist and a flute finisher. The family has many books.</span></p><p><br></p>