Book 3 in the award-winning Charlie Kingsley Mystery series.

Everyone knows vampires don’t exist.

So when Mildred Schmidt, one of Charlie’s customers, is convinced that her next-door neighbor’s house sitter is actually a vampire, Charlie of course has to step in to see what is really going on.

What she finds is … disturbing. The house sitter DOES have some peculiar habits—like digging holes in the backyard in the middle of the night.

Surely, they aren’t … graves.

But then Polly, a local teenager, goes missing.

Of course, teenagers DO run away from time to time.

Less explainable is the dead body that then appears in the “vampire’s” yard.

Luckily, Charlie is hot on the case, and not a moment too soon as she races to not only find Polly, but to discover the killer before the bodies start to pile up.

Meet Charlie. Also known as “Aunt Charlie” from the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. She’s back, making teas and solving cases in this funny, twisty, cozy mystery series set in the 1990s in Redemption, Wisconsin.

“The characters are fun and the story is good. You just want to keep reading. It also makes you want to try different flavors of tea.”

“Murder Next Door is an entertaining story containing several mysteries tangled together in an intriguing way that kept the pages rapidly turning. I can’t wait to escape into the next Charlie Kingsley Mystery and 1990s Redemption, Wisconsin. It is quite the place and she is quite the protagonist.”

Want a taste? You can read the first chapter here or listen to it below:

 

You can also get a peek of the writing process with the story behind the story here.

While this book can be read as a standalone, you may find it more enjoyable to read them in order, which you can find here.

For more on how all three series fit together, start here.

And don’t forget to check out all the short stories, snippets, unpublished excerpts and more, available in the FREE MPW Book Club.

In a book club? You can download book discussion questions here.