Secret Santa Murder: A Charlie Kingsley Mystery Chapter 1 “Charlie, thank goodness you’re here.” Pat immediately ushered me into her foyer, taking my coat off before she had even shut the front door. “It’s already falling apart, and the party has barely even started.” “How can a Secret Santa party fall apart?” I asked, trying […]
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Chapter 1 “So, how is the weather there? Wait, don’t tell me. On second thought, I don’t want to know,” Pat said before erupting into a major coughing fit. I cradled the phone receiver to my ear as I slid open the sliding glass door to step out onto the balcony. The sun was shining,
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Chapter 1 “My husband is missing. Can you find him?” I straightened up, pressing the phone tighter against my ear. The voice was frail and thin, and I wondered if I had heard her correctly. “Did you say your husband is missing?” “Yes. I need help finding him. Can you do that?” “Is this an
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Chapter 1 “This is the most absurd thing I have ever done,” I muttered to myself as I clomped up the stairs to the tidy blue and white ranch house. “And believe me, I know a lot about absurd things. Actually, probably too much.” It had only been a few weeks since I’d moved to
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As an author, one of the questions I often get asked is if any of my characters are based on people I know in real life. Honestly, the answer is sort of and not really. Not really because no, I don’t consciously base any characters on anyone I know in real life. And sort of
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When Charlie Kingsley first introduced herself to me, she didn’t even have a name—she was simply the dead aunt who left Becca her house in her will in the beginning of It Began With a Lie (Book 1 of the Secrets of Redemption series). Eventually, I gave her a name, Lottie, which wasn’t right (she
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Author’s note: When the idea of a spin-off to the Charlie Kingsley Mysteries first came to me, I struggled with who should tell the story. I immediately knew Tilde Tillerson (first introduced in Red Hot Murder) and Mildred Schmidt (first introduced in Murder Next Door) were going to be two of the detectives in the
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Alternative title: The Mysterious Origin of The Redemption Detective Agency Well, okay, it’s not THAT mysterious (even though the titles of the books are all “The Mysterious Case of …”). The Redemption Detective Agency is a spin-off from the Charlie Kingsley Mysteries (cozy mysteries) which is a spin-off from the Secrets of Redemption series (psychological
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