Toni L. P. Kelner

Toni L. P. Kelner -- full name Toni Leigh Perry Kelner -- is an American mystery and fantasy writer who also publishes as Leigh Perry. Over more than two decades she has written three mystery series, including the Laura Fleming novels and, as Leigh Perry, the Family Skeleton Mysteries. She is equally known as an anthologist: alongside Charlaine Harris, she edited a run of urban fantasy anthologies set in Harris's Sookie Stackhouse world and beyond, among them Death's Excellent Vacation and Home Improvement: Undead Edition, several of which reached the extended New York Times bestseller list. Kelner has won the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and received multiple further Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Derringer nominations, along with an RT Book Reviews career achievement award.