Sweet Holidays: A Sweet’s Sweets Bakery Mystery

Connie Shelton

Oct 2011 · Samantha Sweet Magical Cozy Mystery Series Book 3 · Secret Staircase Books, an imprint of Columbine Publishing Group

About this ebook

USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton introduces her most delightful cozy mystery series yet—with a little romance, a little magic and a whole lot of chocolate!

 

In this third book in the Samantha Sweet cozy mystery series, it's Christmas and a quirky Romanian chocolatier shows up at Sweet's Sweets, offering to create a special line of hand-dipped chocolates for Samantha's customers. He says he will work for no pay, just to prove himself. But when she learns that he has connections to the wooden box which seems to give Sam her mystical powers, she discovers that certain evil people may do just about anything to take it away from her.

 

With the same combination of mystery, romance and that touch of the paranormal for which the series has become known, Sweet Holidays carries the reader into the special and magical world of northern New Mexico at the holiday season.

 

Readers are raving about these lighthearted, relaxing, well-written books—Samantha may not be young, beautiful or have the perfect body, but she is intelligent, independent, and hard working, the kind of person you feel you already know.

 

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Praise for USA Today bestseller Connie Shelton's previous mysteries:

 

"Connie Shelton gets better with every book she writes." -- Midwest Book Review

 

"Shelton again has done a superb job in bringing New Mexico to life." -- Albuquerque Journal

 

"Connie Shelton has another winner." --The Book Report

 

 USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton is the author of three ongoing mystery series. In the Samantha Sweet cozy mystery books, Connie draws upon her own love of baking (and eating) pastries to bring a sweet element to the business of solving crimes for her new female sleuth. Her original series features female accountant and part-time sleuth, Charlie Parker and her loyal sidekick dog, in a series that is now eighteen books strong. And her Heist Ladies series features a group of women friends who steal stuff … from the bad guys! Connie and her husband live in northern New Mexico with their two dogs. Visit her website at connieshelton.com

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Ratings and reviews

Love the series. But in not even through the first chapter and I'm already a bit irritated. In the second book, she makes a replica of an ENTIRE BOOK SHOP, including the owner and herself, out of chocolate. The description even mentions that the chairs look exactly like the real ones due to her special raspberry chocolate. But in the first couple pages of the third book, she suddenly has no chocolate candy skills and would need to take a class to make any. Really?

I'm enjoying the series. It is easy to read and interesting enough to keep me hooked til the end, leaving me wanting more.

Great mystery , READING NUMBER 3 SHE has a new fan. Gotta go lots of new books to read!

About the author

USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton is the author of more than twenty-five novels, including the international bestselling Charlie Parker mysteries and the Samantha Sweet series. She has taught writing courses and was a contributor to Chicken Soup For the Writer’s Soul. She and her husband live in northern New Mexico with their two dogs. Visit her website at connieshelton.com