Michele Pariza Wacek Books in Order

Kit Caldwell has spent years living with the disappearance of her twin sister, Cat. Then one Halloween night, it seems Cat may be back, or someone wants Kit to believe she is.

Becca moves to Redemption hoping for a fresh start with her family, only to inherit a house with a violent past. As old memories stir, she starts to wonder if something darker is waiting for them there.

Fifteen years after Jessica vanished, Becca is still the last person known to have seen her. As old memories and new dangers close in, she races to uncover what really happened that night.

Becca thinks the past may finally loosen its grip, then more disappearances and a murder push suspicion right back onto her. To clear her name, she may have to trust a truth that sounds impossible.

Charlie has finally built something in Redemption, friends, love, and a new business. Then the darkness beneath the town resurfaces and threatens everything she thought was finally safe.

Lost and on the run, Charlie stops in Redemption in 1987 and means to leave as soon as possible. Instead she finds love, danger, and a town with secrets even deadlier than the ones chasing her.

A serial killer appears to be targeting young men, and every clue points to Linda's sister Elizabeth. The problem is Elizabeth is dead, which makes the case even more terrifying.

A dead husband, a pregnant wife, and a poisoned Christmas gift land Charlie in a very messy holiday case. In Redemption, even the season of goodwill comes wrapped in secrets.

A vanished nanny, a lying nanny, and a family with too many secrets set this thriller in motion. The truth is twisted, and it is not what anyone expects.

A late-night graveyard scare turns into one of Redemption's oddest little mysteries. This Charlie prequel novella asks a simple question, what if gargoyles are not as imaginary as they should be?

A blizzard traps Charlie with an estranged family in a haunted house, and murder makes a bad gathering even worse. To sort it out, she has to look past old grudges and fresh panic.

Something weird is going on in one of Redemption's lakes, and Charlie gets pulled into another sharp little mystery. Around this town, even local legends can lead somewhere dangerous.

Five friends head into the woods and only four come back. Charlie has to figure out what happened out there, and why, before the wrong story hardens into the truth.

A worried customer sends Charlie looking into the strange house sitter next door. He may not be a vampire, but something about him is definitely wrong, and possibly deadly.

Redemption starts looking a little too much like Sleepy Hollow, but Charlie is not buying the legend. Beneath the eerie setup, she suspects a very human killer at work.

In 1929, Helen Blackstone is forced back to the childhood home where her mother went mad. When her brother is threatened, she uncovers a family truth that changes everything.

As a child, Tori saw a shadowy figure take her baby brother, though his body was found in the crib the next morning. Decades later, that impossible night still refuses to stay buried.

Every day Sissy visits the same restaurant, sits in the same place, and orders the same meal. Then a stranger from Redemption arrives, and the reason for her ritual starts to surface.

Thanksgiving in Redemption should be busy and harmless, but Charlie ends up with a holiday murder on her hands instead. Another celebration means another knot of local secrets to untangle.

One of Charlie's tea customers wakes up with a dead fiancé and no memory of what happened. To help her, Charlie has to untangle what was in the tea, and what someone wants forgotten.

At a funeral, a woman says her daughter has been kidnapped, except no one believes the girl exists. Becca digs in anyway and uncovers lies that lead to something much bigger.

Becca has always distrusted the room at the top of the stairs, but she can't explain why. When Mia starts changing after living there, old rumors begin to feel far too real.

In Charlie's very first case, a guest dies at the Redemption Inn and the resident ghost gets the blame. Charlie steps in to protect the inn, and to find the living culprit.

After losing her job, fiancé, and apartment, Emily moves to Redemption and reluctantly joins Aunt Tilde's detective agency. Their first real case proves the so-called scheme may uncover very real trouble.

Everyone tells Becca to let Mia go, but she cannot shake the feeling something is terribly wrong. As Mia's disappearance points back to the room at the top of the stairs, Becca is pulled into another dark search.

After the latest battle, Becca should feel safe at last, but the nightmares are back. As she tries to rebuild, she begins to fear the darkness in Redemption is not finished with her yet.

Charlie escapes Wisconsin for sunny Cabo, only to find a body on the beach and become the prime suspect. To save her vacation, and herself, she has to solve the case far from home.

Emily is stuck looking into a missing dog tied to Nick Stewart's girlfriend's aunt, hardly her dream assignment. Then the dog's owner says there was never any dog at all.

Emily is getting used to Redemption's odd cases, but Ruth's may be the strangest yet, she says she has lost her ghost. To solve it, Emily has to dig into a decades-old murder.

What looks like a tragic bar fire turns far messier when a pregnant waitress disappears. Charlie follows the trail into an old Redemption mystery that may put her in real danger.

Charlie goes to a high-end Mardi Gras masquerade hoping friends will mend fences. Then a guest drops dead, a storm seals everyone in, and she has to spot the killer behind the mask.

A quick welfare check turns impossible when Emily arrives to find the house itself is gone, replaced by a health club. Now she must figure out what happened to both the missing niece and the missing house.

Emily and the Redemption Detective Agency face another offbeat cold case when a grave disappears. In Redemption, even the cemetery can hide the start of a much larger mystery.