Meet Charlie Kingsley
By day she’s selling custom tea out of her home. By night (and err, also by day) solving crimes and keeping her customers out of jail.
Charlie Kingsley never wanted to become an amateur sleuth. She would have much preferred living a quiet life growing herbs and flowers and turning those into custom teas she sells out of her house.
It isn’t her fault that Redemption, Wisconsin, has way too many murders and disappearances that a small town has a right to have. Nor is it her fault that so many of her customers end up in the middle of a murderous scandal. She’s just trying to sell tea (but thank goodness she has a knack for solving crimes otherwise she might be out of business!).
But what about Redemption, Wisconsin?
If you haven’t heard of this strange little town, quite honestly it’s just like any other quirky Midwestern small town.
Well, maybe it has more than its fair of secrets… not to mention a strange and mysterious past.
And never mind how many people disappear… or die… every year. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
Right?
If you like smart amateur sleuths who can solve crimes without Google and smart phones in an odd little town with its own personality, welcome to Redemption and Charlie Kingsley…your next obsession.
What you can expect from The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries:
- Slow-burn romantic tension with the detective who would prefer she leave investigating to the “professionals.”
- Twisty mysteries and lots of secrets (if you like Agatha Christie, this is right up your alley)
- Quirky humor, pets, tea and 1990s nostalgia
If you like:
Agatha Christie (especially Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot)
Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines)
Aurora Teagarden by Charlaine Harris
Books by Maddie Day
Murder She Wrote
Midsomer Murders
You’ll LOVE the Charlie Kingsley Mystery series!
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The Murder Before Christmas
A dead husband. A pregnant wife. A poisoned Christmas gift. Can Charlie discover the grinch who stole Christmas?
If you’ve got a problem, Charlie Kingsley probably has a tea that’ll help make it right.
EXCEPT when it comes to love. She does NOT do love potions.
Not even for Courtney, her pregnant new client who showed up three weeks before Christmas seeking a love potion because her husband was cheating on her.
So, Courtney asked about poison, instead.
She said she was joking That’s what happens between wives and husbands. They get angry and talk about killing each other. They don’t really mean it.
It seems to make sense … until Courtney’s husband turns up dead on Christmas Eve.
He was poisoned, of course.
And who is the number one suspect? Courtney. Of course.
But did she actually do it? Or is she being set up?
It’s up to Charlie to sort through all the twists and turns in a case that gets more complicated the deeper she digs.
Ice Cold Murder
What do you get when you combine an estranged family, a blizzard, a haunted house … and murder? The world’s WORST family gathering. Ever.
When Charlie agrees to accompany her friend Claire to her late grandmother’s reading of the will, she assumes she is simply there for moral support.
She doesn’t expect things to get so… strange.
It’s odd enough that it takes place over a weekend, but that’s just the beginning …
They also need to stay in Claire’s grandma’s supposedly haunted house with Claire’s estranged family.
Things get even worse when a huge storm snows them in. No electricity, no phone, and no way out.
Throw a dead body into the mix, and there’s no question it’s now the world’s worst family gathering. Ever.
At least Charlie brought lots of tea, which she’s going to need as she races to solve this closed-circle mystery before her friend’s dysfunctional family get-together results in anyone else being murdered.
Murder Next Door
Everyone knows vampires don’t exist. Which means the house sitter living next to Mildred, one of Charlie’s customers, can’t possibly be a vampire. Right?
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.
Murder Among Friends
Five friends went into the woods. Only four return. Can Charlie get to the bottom of what happened and why?
If something ails you, Charlie Kingsley likely has a tea to fix it.
So, when Charlie witnesses a young woman faint on the side of the road, she has no choice but to offer her services. (Along with a cup of her famous tea, of course.)
In no time at all, the young woman is back to normal, which is good news, as she’s about to go camping with her friends.
Charlie thinks that will be the last of it … so imagine her surprise when she gets a phone call that one of the friends is missing.
Is the friend simply lost? Or did something more disturbing happen?
Luckily, Charlie is not only on the case, but fueled with tea, as this will prove to be one of her most puzzling crimes to date.
The Murder of Sleepy Hollow
No, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” has NOT come to life in Redemption, Wisconsin. No matter how much it might look like it.
Unfortunately for Ike Krane, his parents had a wicked sense of humor.
So, early on, he decided to embrace his challenges rather than run from them, which is how he became a ghost hunter and ended up visiting Redemption, Wisconsin.
The problem—trouble seems to follow Ike just as it did his fictional predecessor.
First, there’s the sound of a horse galloping down the neighborhood streets at night, even though there’s never a horse to be found.
Then, Ike’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Kat arrives with an urgent message for him.
But before she can deliver it, a journalist shows up, accusing Ike of murdering Abe … Kat’s former lover.
Surely, Ike can clear all of this up.
Except he’s disappeared.
And then, the journalist is found murdered.
And through it all, the sounds of endless galloping return, night after night.
Things definitely aren’t looking good for Ike, so it’s a good thing Charlie is there to get to the bottom of why a legend has seemingly come to life.
Red Hot Murder
Charlie Kingsley’s customers RAVE about her. Until one drinks a cup … remembers nothing, AND wakes up with a dead fiancé. What was in that tea?
Charlie Kingsley’s tea customers have two things in common:
They rave about her teas.
AND they have a knack for attracting trouble.
There’s never been a connection between the two … until now.
One night, one of Charlie’s customers passes out, only to wake up to her fiancé dead in her home and no memory of what happened the night before.
But one thing she DOES remember is drinking a cup of Charlie’s tea.
Charlie knows it wasn’t the tea, but everyone else is suddenly blaming her, so she has no choice but to get to the bottom of this mysterious death.
A Cornucopia of Murder
Not even Thanksgiving is safe from murder.
When Charlie accepts an invitation for a potluck Thanksgiving feast, she immediately decides to bring dessert. Homemade pies, of course.
And they look so delicious that two of the guests decide to sneak a few bites before the meal.
Which wouldn’t be an issue, except they both end up dead!
Obviously, Charlie didn’t poison the pies, but that’s not how it appears. Can she solve the case in time to save the day?
A Grave Error
Gargoyles aren’t real, right? But, then who (or what) attacked Cyndi in the graveyard in the middle of the night?
Charlie Kingsley is NOT a doctor. She is very clear about this to all her customers who purchase her teas and tinctures.
But, somehow that doesn’t stop her customers from treating her like a doctor. Including calling her in the middle of the night to help with an emergency.
What’s the emergency? Her customer’s daughter, Cyndi, was attacked by a … gargoyle?
But gargoyles aren’t real!
Right?
So, who attacked Cyndi? And whose next?
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About the Author
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..