The Mysterious Case of the Missing Ghost
Series: Redemption Detective Agency #3
Author: Michele Pariza Wacek
Genre: Private Investigator Mystery
Setting: Redemption, Wisconsin
Release Date: August 30, 2025, by Love-Based Publishing
Pages: 200
Summary:
Emily Hildebrandt is learning to settle into some of the very strange cases that come through The Redemption Detective Agency’s door.
Like Aunt Tilde’s friend Ruth who claims she’s lost a ghost.
How does one lose a ghost? Apparently when the ghost decides to walk out the door.
But, to make matters more complicated, it’s not just any ghost but the ghost of Ruth’s dead husband. Who was murdered decades ago under very suspicious circumstances.
Emily has no choice but to go back in time and figure out what really happened to Ruth’s husband, in order for everyone to rest in peace.
A spin-off from the Charlie Kingsley Mystery series! The Redemption Detective Agency is a funny, twisty cozy mystery series set in the 1990s featuring silver sleuths solving cold cases. Great for fans of the Thursday Murder Club.
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Excerpt
“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 emergency? Have you tried calling the police?”
“Oh, the police,” the voice scoffed. “They can’t do anything.”
That probably meant it wasn’t an emergency, which also indicated her husband had either left on his own accord, or something else had happened to him—something unrelated to foul play. It wasn’t against the law for an adult to disappear, so unless there was evidence that he had been taken against his will, the police likely wouldn’t get involved. I suspected most of the time, in most other places, there wasn’t much in the way of a “something else” option … but this was Redemption, Wisconsin, after all. Here, disappearances were far higher than the national average.
I reached for a pen and yellow pad of paper. “When was the last time you saw him?”
There was a pause. “Well, it’s been years since I’ve seen him.”
My pen hovered over the pad. “Years?”
“Oooh, I think Emily has a new client on the phone,” Aunt Tilde said, elbowing Mildred. They had been fiddling with the coffee maker all morning, but I was unclear as to whether there was actually a problem with the equipment, or if they were just too busy talking to make any coffee. I waved at her to be quiet.
“Well, my eyes, you know. They’re not what they used to be.” She sounded apologetic, and I immediately felt bad. This poor woman probably had cataracts, or had maybe even gone blind, and my first thought was that her husband had been missing for a decade, and she was only now getting around to calling someone about it. “But I know he was here two days ago.”
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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 now she does spend much of her time writing stories. 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.)
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