Free (Kindle/iBooks) mystery novel - Sweet Masterpiece

[Susan Crealock]

Title: Sweet Masterpiece by Connie Shelton

Description: Amazon.com bestselling author Connie Shelton has wowed readers with her down-to-earth female sleuth in her Charlie Parker mystery series. Now she introduces a new set of characters in a mystery series that contains a little romance, a little magic and a lot of chocolate!

Samantha Sweet is a lady who breaks into houses for a living, and the things she discovers often lead to trouble. When she finds an unmarked grave on a property in a remote spot in Taos County, New Mexico, Sam calls in the authorities. A small mural painted inside a closet in the abandoned house provides clues and Sam is caught up in an investigation. A fortune in artwork, a bogus will, and a wooden box that seems to give Sam powers she never dreamed she possessed--all lead to a genuine mystery for Sam to solve.

Then there is all that chocolate! Sam's real goal in life is to use her elegant baking skills to open her own pastry shop, Sweet's Sweets. She's gaining quite the reputation as a baker with a magical touch, but a few obstacles stand in her way. Her grown daughter shows up on her doorstep--jobless and homeless; her bank account is at an all-time low; and trying to work from the tiny cramped kitchen in her home is becoming impossible.

Somehow, Sam copes and she finds that her dreams might just have a chance of coming true.

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[winsomnia]

Grabbed this freebie from Kobo Canada last week. This was my first by writer Connie Shelton. I thoroughly enjoyed it and immediately bought the boxed set of this series (Samantha Sweet Mysteries Boxed Set Books 1-4).

I enjoyed it mostly because it was light and entertaining. It was basically a solid cozy mystery. It's not going to be the best book I've read this year or anything like that, it was just a nice read that kept me wanting more stories about this very interesting and a little bit quirky character. It was fun, it was suspenseful, and many parts of the protagonist's life were interesting to me.

Also, I really appreciated that the spelling and grammar was almost perfect. Nowadays with so much self-publishing and small-publishing and independent publishers trying to grab our attention, my attention was grabbed by someone or some team who knows how to properly string a sentence together. This was a first time in a long time I was able to read a book by an independent publisher that didn't distract me with syntax or spelling errors.

Kudos to Connie Shelton and her team. Once I finish reading book 4, I will be buying more Samantha Sweet mysteries in the near future.