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The Redemption Detective Agency
Cozy. Comedic. Impossible to put down.
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Welcome to 1990s Redemption, Wisconsin
Pre-smartphone. Pre-Google. Just one down-on-her-luck heroine, one aunt with a detective agency that has never solved a single case, and a whole town of secrets waiting to be dug up.
These are the mysteries you read in one sitting and then immediately text a friend about — warm, funny, twisty, and set in a small town you’ll want to move to (murders and all).
What you can expect
- 🏡1990s small-town Wisconsin — no smartphones, no shortcuts, just good old-fashioned sleuthing.
- 🐠A fish-out-of-water heroine holding her whole life together with duct tape and sheer stubbornness.
- 👵Delightfully eccentric silver sleuths who’ve seen it all — and have opinions about every bit of it.
- 🐶Pet detectives with a genuine nose for investigating.
- 🔍Cold cases and deep secrets buried under a town that looks perfectly ordinary. It isn’t.
- ❤️Romance — opposites attract, with a love triangle to keep you guessing.
- 🤣Lots and lots of laughs. This is cozy comfort reading at its most fun.
Meet Emily Hildebrandt
She had a job, a fiancé, and an apartment. She lost all three in the same week — and washed up back in Redemption with nothing but a suitcase and a very bad attitude.
With nowhere else to go, Emily moves in with her wonderfully eccentric Aunt Tilde and takes a “job” at Tilde’s ridiculous little detective agency — the one that has never, not once, solved an actual case. It’s supposed to be a way to keep busy and keep the peace. A joke, really.
Then a real case walks through the door. And suddenly it’s not so funny anymore.
Emily never wanted to be a detective. She just wanted her old life back. But armed with a clipboard, a stubborn streak, a crew of nosy silver-haired sidekicks, and a few pets who are convinced they’re on the payroll, she keeps cracking the cases nobody else can — whether she likes it or not.
But what about Redemption, Wisconsin?
If you haven’t heard of this strange little town, it’s honestly just like any other quirky Midwestern small town..
Well… maybe it has a few more secrets than most. Not to mention a strange and mysterious past.
And never mind how many people go missing… or turn up dead… every year. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
Right?
If you love a hopeless-but-determined sleuth, a cast of characters you’ll wish were your own family, and a town with a personality all its own, welcome to Redemption and The Redemption Detective Agency… your next obsession.
If you like…
The Thursday Murder Club
Only Murders in the Building
Murder, She Wrote
The Golden Girls (if they decided to become sleuths!)
Gilmore Girls (if they decided to become sleuths!)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (if she decided to become a sleuth!)
You’re going to love The Redemption Detective Agency.
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The Missing Motive · The Missing Dog Walker · The Missing Ghost · The Missing House
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Motive
Lost her job. Lost her fiancé. Lost her apartment. What else could possibly go wrong?
After losing her job, her fiancé, and her apartment in the span of a week, Emily Hildebrandt has no choice but to move in with her eccentric Aunt Tilde — and fake-work at her ridiculous detective agency. It’s meant to be a harmless way to keep the peace. But when a real case lands in their laps, suddenly it’s not so funny anymore… and Emily discovers she might be far better at this than she ever wanted to be.
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Dog Walker
Find the missing dog. Simple enough — except the owner swears there was never a dog.
Emily is handed the job of tracking down a missing dog. Straightforward, right? Except the dog’s owner insists there’s never been a dog at all. As Emily pulls at the thread, a “simple” case unravels into something far stranger — and the agency’s second case proves every bit as twisty as its first.
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Ghost
How do you lose a ghost? Aunt Tilde’s friend Ruth is about to find out.
Emily is finally settling into the very strange cases that come through The Redemption Detective Agency’s door — like Aunt Tilde’s friend Ruth, who is absolutely certain she’s lost a ghost. It sounds absurd. It probably is. But in Redemption, the absurd has a way of turning deadly serious very quickly.
The Mysterious Case of the Missing House
How does an entire house go missing?
Book 4 of The Redemption Detective Agency is here — and it might just be Emily’s strangest case yet. A whole house has vanished, and the only people equipped to figure out how (and why) are the least likely detective agency in Wisconsin. The gang’s all here, and the mystery has never been bigger.
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“A well-crafted cozy mystery with well-developed characters. I love the humorous dialogue and the depiction of the town.”
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About the Michele Pariza Wacek
A USA Today Bestselling, award-winning author, Michele PW (Pariza Wacek) taught herself to read at 3 years old because she wanted to write stories so badly. Mystery stories, to be exact. They’re clean and twisty with a dash of romance and the supernatural in them.
When she’s not writing, she’s usually reading, hanging out with her dog, or watching the Food Network and imagining she’s an awesome cook. (Spoiler alert, she’s not. Luckily for the whole family, Mr. PW is in charge of the cooking.)
If you love clean and twisty books that blends multiple genres as well, then welcome to Redemption. You’re going to love it here.
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