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Start with Sweet Masterpiece and continue through all 17 books in the listed reading order.
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Start with Sweet Masterpiece
Book 1 by Connie Shelton • Published 2010
Samantha Sweet breaks into houses for a living, cleaning up abandoned properties for the government while baking cakes from her tiny kitchen. When a dying woman gives her a carved wooden box and Sam discovers an unmar...
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Samantha Sweet reading order
Ends with Tricky Sweet
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Book 1:Sweet Masterpiece
Connie Shelton • 2010
Samantha Sweet breaks into houses for a living, cleaning up abandoned properties for the government while baking cakes from her tiny kitchen. When a dying woman gives her a carved wooden box and Sam discovers an unmar...
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Book 2:Sweet's Sweets
Connie Shelton • 2011
Still working as a caretaker for abandoned properties, Samantha is on the verge of opening her own pastry shop. When she finds a blood soaked coat at one of her houses and a friend makes a shocking confession, Sam mus...
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Book 3:Sweet Holidays
Connie Shelton • 2011
As Christmas approaches, a charming chocolatier offers to create a special line of hand dipped chocolates for Sweet's Sweets. When Sam learns of his disturbing connection to her magical box and to ruthless people who...
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Book 4:Sweet Hearts
Connie Shelton • 2012
Valentine’s week brings a flood of wedding cakes and romantic orders to Sweet's Sweets, plus pressure over Sam and Beau’s own plans. When a dying woman begs Sam to find her missing son before it is too late, Sam has t...
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Book 5:Bitter Sweet
Connie Shelton • 2012
At the height of wedding season, Sam’s pastry shop is slammed and her side job breaking into houses offers no break. After two elderly women she has met die suddenly, she suspects a predator is targeting trusting seni...
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Book 6:Sweets Galore
Connie Shelton • 2013
With her September wedding days away, Sam is buried under bakery orders and visiting relatives when old flame Jake Calendar strolls into the shop with a Hollywood scheme. His demand for money threatens to wreck both h...
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Book 7:Sweets, Begorra
Connie Shelton • 2013
An unexpected inheritance from an Irish great uncle sends Samantha and Beau to the Emerald Isle for their honeymoon. Between rocky coastlines, a missing charter boat, and wary locals, Sam must decide whether the promi...
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Book 8:Sweet Payback
Connie Shelton • 2014
In the tiny town of Sembramos, tensions explode when two men convicted of murdering a local girl are released after serving only a few years. As Easter crowds descend on Sweet's Sweets, Sam and Sheriff Beau struggle t...
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Book 9:Sweet Somethings
Connie Shelton • 2014
Samantha is organizing a chocolate festival in Taos, wrangling feuding committee members, big prize money, and competitors with sharp elbows. When someone ends up dead, she has to keep the event from collapsing while...
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Book 10:Sweets Forgotten
Connie Shelton • 2015
A woman who claims to have amnesia walks into Sweet's Sweets, oddly knowledgeable about Sam’s special chocolate order. While Beau copes with a flu stricken department and a distant murder case, Sam realizes their Jane...
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Book 11:The Woodcarver's Secret
Connie Shelton • 2015
In thirteenth century Europe, woodcarver John Carver crafts three boxes from a lightning struck tree and discovers they hold uncanny powers of healing and harm. As the boxes pass from owner to owner across centuries,...
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Book 12:Spooky Sweet
Connie Shelton • 2016
Samantha Sweet lands a lucrative chocolate contract just as she outgrows her little shop. A sprawling Victorian house seems like the perfect solution, until eerie sounds, a mysterious duffel full of cash, and Beau’s n...
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Book 13:Spellbound Sweets
Connie Shelton • 2017
Halloween at Sweet's Sweets means pumpkin cookies, ghostly cupcakes, and a costume party at the neighborhood bookshop. When a guest is murdered and a rare volume vanishes almost before anyone can blink, Samantha must...
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Book 14:Sticky Sweet
Connie Shelton • 2018
A luxury travel firm hires Samantha to create $200 a box chocolates for a jet set tour just as a friend begs her to take on one last house breaking job. When a fatal crash proves to be murder, Sam must connect a nosy...
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Book 15:Sweet Magic
Connie Shelton • 2019
As Samantha Sweet juggles her daughter’s wedding and a huge new chocolate contract, someone takes a shot at her and an old enemy returns to town. While the sheriff’s office chases alibis, Sam’s family trip to England...
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Book 17:The Ghost of Christmas Sweet
Connie Shelton • 2021
During the busy holiday rush at Sweet's Sweets, new librarian Emily Plankhurst tells Samantha Sweet about a vision of a hidden niche in the Taos library. Inside they find a painting long believed destroyed in a mansio...
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Book 18:Tricky Sweet
Connie Shelton • 2022
Three California college students head to the snowy mountains of New Mexico for spring break and promptly vanish after checking into the wrong cabin. When one boy’s sister calls Kelly Sweet, Sam and Kelly follow a sca...
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Samantha Sweet FAQ
What is the best order to read the Samantha Sweet series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Sweet Masterpiece.
How many books are in the Samantha Sweet series?
There are 17 books currently listed in the Samantha Sweet series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Samantha Sweet series?
New readers should start with Sweet Masterpiece, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Samantha Sweet series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2010 to 2022.