Welcome to the Lighter Side of Redemption!
We’ve got tea and freshly baked cookies waiting for you, along with funny and twisty cozy mystery series.
Once you’re ready to settle in and solve a mystery or two, here’s what you can choose from:
The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries
The Charlie Kingsley Mystery series: Also known as “Aunt Charlie” from the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series, Charlie is back, making teas and solving cases in this funny, twisty, whodunit cozy mystery series set in the 1990s in Redemption, Wisconsin.
If you love a no-nonsense amateur sleuth, quirky characters, pets, small town deadly secrets and a touch of romance, the Charlie Kingsley Mysteries may be your next favorite cozy mystery series.
For fans of Agatha Christie (especially Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot), Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines), Aurora Teagarden by Charlaine Harris, Books by Maddie Day and Murder She Wrote.
All the Charlie Kingsley books can be read as a standalone (but you might enjoy them more if you read them in order).
The Redemption Detective Agency
The Redemption Detective Agency series: Another twisty and funny cozy mystery series set in 1990s in Redemption. This is a spin-off from the Charlie Kingsley Mysteries featuring Tilde (Red Hot Murder/A Cornucopia of Murder) and Mildred (Murder Next Door/Three French Hens and a Murder), with an emphasis on cold cases.
It also has cats, dogs, found family, a fish-out-of-water sleuth and an opposites attract love triangle. Great for fans of the Thursday Murder Club, Only Murders in the Building, Murder She Wrote, Gilmore Girls (if they were also amateur detectives) and The Golden Girls (if they decided to start solving mysteries).
For more on how The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries and Secrets of Redemption series are connected, click here.
To meet Charlie and hear her take on the two series, click here.
For more FAQs, including a list of the books in order, click here.
For more cozy fun, check out Games and Puzzles and Recipes.
You can also enjoy some short stories, deleted scenes and other fun stuff about the Town of Redemption here. (Note: This is a mix of dark and light Redemption.)
Grab the free prequel, A Grave Error, here.
For the books in the Charlie Kingsley series, click here.
For the books in the The Redemption Detective Agency, click here.
In a book club? Here are some book club questions specific for cozy mysteries (including a few questions at the end that are good for my books.)