🎄Virtual Book Tour & Book Review & #Giveaway: Mysterious Christmas Collection: A Charlie Kingsley/Redemption Detective Agency Crossover Christmas Cozy Mystery Anthology by Michele Pariza Wacek

Welcome to my stop on the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour for Mysterious Christmas Collection: A Charlie Kingsley/Redemption Detective Agency Crossover Christmas Cozy Mystery Anthology by Michele Pariza Wacek! Today we are featuring a review of a Charlie Kingsley/Redemption Detective Agency Crossover Christmas Cozy Mystery Anthology, that also includes festive recipes! Stop by each blog on the tour for interviews, guest posts, spotlights, reviews, and more! There is also a 🌟Giveaway🌟 for a signed paperback, US only. ENTER HERE! ⬅️

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

About the Book:

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 is a funny, clean & twisty cozy series that 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.

 My Review:

At just 184ish pages, I want you to go ahead and give yourself a Christmas present – download this delightful holiday read right now. You deserve it. You can read this in one sitting, as you take a break from the holiday bustle and your long to do list.  

This was a lot of fun. I really enjoy Michele’s writing and both of these series, so it was a treat to get a two in one type of deal! Two stories featuring characters I love, in a nostalgic 1990s setting, and there is cross over of characters. Yes please! 

In a short format, Michele manages to write two clever  mysteries, of which I didn’t solve ahead of time, but I loved being along for the ride. I enjoyed not only mysteries, but also the cozy details and humor sprinkled throughout. 

Lots of holiday reading fun! 

About the Author:

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: Facebook ~ Instagram 

Purchase Links: Amazon

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