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Book Details
A Mysterious Christmas Collection: A Charlie Kingsley/Redemption Detective Agency
Crossover Christmas Cozy Mystery Anthology
Cozy Mysteries
Setting – Wisconsin
Publisher: Love-Based Publishing
Publication date : November 19, 2025
Number of Pages: 150
Digital ASIN : B0FVNJXFQS
In this charming Christmas cozy mystery collection, you get not one but TWO Christmas
mysteries–one from the Charlie Kingsley Mystery series (Secret Santa Murder) and one from
The Redemption Detective Agency (The Mysterious Case of the Dead Elf).
Even better, the characters in both series will make a crossover appearance in the other mystery.
Here’s a peek of each story:
Secret Santa Murder: A Secret Santa party goes off the rails when a guest is murdered after
opening their gift. Can Charlie get to the bottom of who did it in this locked door mystery?
The Mysterious Case of the Dead Elf: Emily and the gang take on a case to help a young mother
get over her childhood Christmas trauma. Can they go back in time and solve the mystery of a
dead elf to save Christmas before it’s too late?
Includes TWO Christmas cookie family recipes!
The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries
The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries is funny, clean & twisty cozy series takes place in the 1990s in
Redemption, Wisconsin. They’re perfect if you enjoy small town cozy mysteries with quirky
characters, pets, tea, culinary, a touch of romance, 1990s nostalgia and loads of fun. If you like
books by Agatha Christie, Louise Penny and Maddie Day, you’ll love these books.
The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries is a continuing series with books that are standalone and can be
read in any order.
The Redemption Detective Agency
A spin off from the Charlie Kingsley Mystery series. This cozy romcom mystery series also
takes place in the 1990s and features a fish out of water amateur sleuth, pet detectives, a cast of
silver sleuths (some you’ll recognize from the main series), cold cases and a hefty dose of
romance. Think The Thursday Murder Club meets Bridget Jones’s Diary, but in small town
Wisconsin. Also great for fans for The Golden Girls (if they started solving mysteries), Only
Murders in the Building (without a podcast and takes place in Wisconsin) and Murder She
Wrote.
All the books are clean, twisty and funny. They can be read in any order but to get the best
experience, I would recommend starting with Book 1, The Mysterious Case of the Missing
Motive.
As A Mysterious Christmas Collection has 2 Christmas cozy mysteries in it (one from The Charlie Kingsley
Mysteries and one from The Redemption Detective Agency) I thought I would have both main characters
share a few words. CK for Charlie Kinglsey and EH for Emily Hildebrandt from The Redemption Detective
Agency.
Describe yourself.
CK: My name is Charlie Kingsley. I make and sell custom teas out of my home in Redemption,
Wisconsin, along with solving mysteries. For some reason my tea clients find themselves getting
swept up in a lot of murder cases, and it’s up to me to bail them out.
EH: I’m Emily Hildebrandt and I’m the office manager at The Redemption Detective Agency. I can
honestly say I never thought I would ever be any sort of detective…ever…but life can be very
unpredictable.
Are you afraid of anything?
CK: That my secrets will come out.
EH: That my life will never go back to normal.
Do you have a special talent or gift?
CK: Apparently I seem to be pretty good at solving mysteries, and it’s a good thing for my tea clients.
EH: I seem to also have a knack as well at solving mysteries. Who knew? Not me, that’s for sure.
Do you have a secret?
CK: Yes, but Michele promised me it wasn’t going to come out in the Charlie Kingsley Mysteries
(although she might do some special bonus content on the website about it). It’s only available in The
Secrets of Redemption series, which is where it all began. (While Secrets of Redemption IS a
psychological thriller series, it’s still clean if any cozy readers want to check it out.)
EH: I don’t consider myself keeping secrets, more like there are things that people closest to me are
better off not knowing about. (Especially when it comes to the Duckworths, which is the family I used
to work for. The less people know about them, the better.)
Tell us about your family.
CK: My biological family still lives in New York. I rarely see them, but my niece and nephew will start
spending the summers with me in a few years when they get a little older. However, my found family
in Redemption has been amazing and supportive.
EH: I’m estranged from my mother, and my father isn’t in the picture, but my sister and I still talk a lot
(she lives in Riverview, which is about an hour away). My Aunt Tilde, who owns the Redemption
Detective Agency, has been my lifeline. I don’t know what I would have done without her when my
life imploded a few months ago, she was the one who picked me up and gave me a fresh start. And
even though I didn’t expect it, I feel like I’ve found my home in Redemption.
What is your most embarrassing moment?
CK: I was pretty naïve when I was younger, and because of that I ended up making some poor choices
that didn’t work out well.
EH: That I didn’t realize my old life, my life in Riverview, was a complete and total sham.
What do you do for fun?
CK: Bake! I especially love to bake cookies (like the Christmas cookie recipes that are included in A
Mysterious Christmas Collection.)
EH: Organize! I love nothing better than putting everything in its proper place.
If you could change anything about your life what would it be?
CK: For the most part, I’m pretty content with my life. Although, that doesn’t mean there are a lot of
things I wish I could go back and do differently…
EH: I would have left well enough alone at my former job and not gotten myself fired. Although…if I
hadn’t gotten myself fired, I wouldn’t have realized I was living an illusion. I haven’t decided yet if
that’s a good thing or not.
About Michele Pariza Wacek
A USA Today Bestselling, award-winning author, Michele taught herself to read at 3 years old
because she wanted to write stories so badly. It took some time (and some detours) but she does
spend much of her time writing stories now. Mystery stories, to be exact. They’re clean and
twisty, and range from psychological thrillers to cozies, with a dash of romance and supernatural
thrown into the mix. If that wasn’t enough, she posts lots of fun things on her blog, including
short stories, puzzles, recipes and more, at MPWNovels.com.
Michele grew up in Wisconsin, (hence why all her books take place there), and still visits
regularly, but she herself escaped the cold and now lives in the mountains of Prescott, Arizona
with her husband and southern squirrel hunter Cassie.
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.)
Author Links
Website https://MPWNovels.com
Facebook https://Facebook.com/michelepwauthor
Instagram https://instagram.com/themichelepw
TOUR PARTICIPANTS
December 8 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT
December 9 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 10 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
December 10 – Angel’s Book Nook – SPOTLIGHT
December 11 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST
December 11 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
December 12 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – SPOTLIGHT WITH RECIPE
December 13 – Sarandipity’s – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 13 – fundinmental – SPOTLIGHT
December 14 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – SPOTLIGHT
December 15 – Bibliophile Foodie – REVIEW
December 16 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
December 16 – Hall Ways Blog – REVIEW
December 17 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT WITH RECIPE
December 17 – Baroness Book Trove – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
December 18 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
December 19 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST
December 20 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
December 21 – Salty Inspirations – REVIEW
December 21 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – REVIEW
Giveaway
2 signed paperbacks, US only
