Abigail Keam: Author and Beekeeper

Abigail Keam is an award-winning and Amazon best-selling author. She writes the Josiah Reynolds Mystery Series, which is about a Southern beekeeper turned amateur female sleuth. The Last Chance For Love Series tells of strangers who come from all walks of life to the magical Last Chance Motel in Key Largo and get a second chance at rebuilding their lives, and The Princess Maura Fantasy Series.

Besides loving history, Kentucky bourbon, and chocolate, Abigail Keam loves honeybees, and for many years, she made her living by selling honey at a farmers’ market. She is an award-winning beekeeper who has won sixteen honey awards at the Kentucky State Fair including the Barbara Horn Award, which is given to beekeepers who rate a perfect hundred in a honey competition.

A strong supporter of farmers’ markets and local food economy, Abigail has taken her knowledge of beekeeping to create a fictional beekeeping protagonist, Josiah Reynolds, who solves mysteries in the Bluegrass. While her novels are for enjoyment, she discusses the importance of a local sustainable food economy and land management for honeybees and other creatures.

She currently lives on the Kentucky River in a metal house with her husband and various critters. She still has honeybees.

One thing Abigail loves to do as an author is to write real people and events into her storylines. “I am a student of history and love to insert historical information into my mysteries. My goal is to entertain my readers, but if they learn a little something along the way—well, then we are both happy. I certainly learn a lot from my research, and I hope my readers come away with a new appreciation of beekeeping from my Josiah Reynolds Mysteries.”

Her new mystery series, the Mona Moon Mysteries—a rags-to-riches 1930s mystery series which includes real people and events into the storyline—has just been released. This series is about a cartographer who is broke and counting her pennies when there is a knock at her door. A lawyer, representing her deceased uncle, announces Mona has inherited her uncle’s fortune and a horse farm in the Bluegrass. Mona can’t believe it. She is now one of the richest women in the country and in the middle of the Great Depression!

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