Published: Oct. 31, 2009
Words: 62099 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook description

Charlie Parker is a reluctant detective. As a partner in RJP Investigations, with her brother Ron, she really only intends to keep up the financial end of the business. He's supposed to be the investigator. But Stacy North, Charlie's former best friend, shows up and wants help in locating a missing watch, so Charlie agrees to help. When people start dying, Charlie knows she's in deep trouble.

Tags

mystery, female sleuth, new mexico mysteries, albuquerque, southwest mysteries, private investigators, amateur sleuths

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Reviews

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Review by: Clyde Wisham on Aug. 08, 2011 :
Charlie Parker Mystery #1 is a good read. It is a little light perhaps (no really evil villains, no all-or-nothing desperate situations, just a good mystery to untangle), but light is good fare too sometimes. I like Charlie Parker and will read more of the series.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Hfpint on March 29, 2011 :
I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more from this author.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: rcmann on May 03, 2010 :
I also downloaded the first three books in this series for free during e-book week. I have read all three and enjoyed them very much.

The mysteries keep the reader involved in the plot; each book was different and did not follow the same set formula.

Charlie is a likeable protaganist who would rather do financial investigative work but finds herself dealing with murders occasionally. I will definitely continue to read the rest in the series.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Mickey330 on March 26, 2010 :
I enjoyed this book. The protagonist, Charlie Parker, is a likeable character and I enjoyed reading about her adventures in her first foray as an investigator (she usually preferes to do the bookkeeping in her and her brother's PI agency). But, when her ex-best-friend needs her help, Charlie steps in. This book is written in the first person and I like that the character is "normal" with no excessive self-analysis, preoccupations, angst or whining. She's just a person doing a [good] job and gets that job done. The plot was Very engrossing and there were sufficient suspects to keep me wondering "whodunit" to the end. It was also a quick read with no parts that bogged down. This is not a new book/series, but it is new to me and I am glad to find another modern detective series.

Thanks to Connie Shelton's participation in e-book week, I downloaded this novel for free. Actually, during e-book week, the first three novels in the series were free, so I downloaded them all and I'm now halfway through the second. There are 10 in all, plus a holiday novella and a new one is coming out this summer.

In fact, I liked this first novel so much that I bought the remaining books as I think I'll continue to enjoy the series. So, great marketing strategy by the author: Offer well-written books for free to try to "hook" a [new] reader. :-) So, based on this first book, I willingly fell for this strategy ... and I think they are well worth the $4.99 Smashwords price.

So, Connie, if you are reading this: Great books and thanks for the gift of the first three books!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Doug Pardee on March 25, 2010 :
This title may be fifteen years old, but other than the absence of cellphones it doesn't really show it. (Gosh, how we've come to depend on those things.)

Well-written and well-edited. A likeable character and a coherent mystery story. You can't really ask for more.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: twinsmom on March 15, 2010 :
I really enjoyed this first installment in Connie Shelton's series. It has good characters, a good plot and is very well written. Charlie Parker is very likable and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

Thanks to Connie Shelton for making this title (and the next 2) available for free during Read an e-book week!
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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