Crooked as a Dog’s Hind Leg

Welcome Back to Byerly!

Collected together for the first time, the seven stories in Crooked as a Dog’s Hind Leg make up a new anthology of short stories set in and around Laura Fleming’s own Byerly, North Carolina. The stories feature fan favorite characters such as Sue Randolph, Wynette Weston, Belva Tucker, and Byerly police chief Junior Norton, in addition to all the quirky aunts, uncles, and cousins that make up the extended Burnette family.

It includes two Laura Fleming stories, as well as the Agatha Award-nominated ＂The Death of Erik the Redneck＂ and the Anthony and Macavity awards-nominated ＂Bible Belt.＂ Packed with the same smart, witty storytelling that’s made the Laura Fleming mystery series a hit with readers and reviewers alike, Crooked as a Dog’s Hind Leg is a true Byerly homecoming.

Despite her Massachusetts address, Toni L.P. Kelner is a bona fide Southerner, with a double name (Toni Leigh), a slew of relatives scattered throughout North Carolina, and the accent to prove it. Toni is the author of the Laura Fleming mysteries and the ＂Where are they now?＂ series, and as Leigh Perry, writes the Family Skeleton mysteries. Toni is also the co-editor of seven urban fantasy anthologies with Charlaine Harris, and has published a number of short -stories. She’s won an Agatha Award and a RT Book Review Career Achievement Award, and has been nominated multiple times for the Anthony, the Macavity, and the -Derringer.

Toni grew up in northern Florida and North Carolina, and currently lives near Boston with her husband, fellow author Stephen P. Kelner, Jr.; their two daughters; two guinea pigs; and an ever-increasing number of books.