Dear Fellow Reader,

What do you do in your “spare” time? How much time do you spend on social media? I obviously read, but I also have developed a bad habit of watching videos on Facebook. I will admit to watching too many dog adoption videos. Yes, it is an odd niche. I wonder how long it will take the dog to warm up to the people. There is even one where the dog bit the person, and she still adopted him.

Of course, my time would be better spent doing something else, but sometimes I think your brain needs a break. The trouble is that you can start and hours will pass. Other than getting a glimpse at human behavior, it is just a mindless activity. I am going to try and correct this habit. I seem to have collected a number of audiobooks and yarn, and I am going to try and blend the two by listening to audiobooks while knitting. It might work.

Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes: A Mystery by Sandra Jackson-Opoku is today’s book. Do you ever look at the Amazon Best Sellers Rank and see what categories the book fits in? Who knew some of those categories were categories? I suppose they break it down so you can tell what kind of book it is and how it has done in relation to other books like it. Did you know that Cozy Culinary Mystery is a category?

Yes, this is a cozy culinary mystery. Savvy Summers owns Essie’s Soul Food Café on the South Side of Chicago. (I was probably drawn to it because I grew up in the Chicago area.) Savvy Summers’ restaurant is known for its delicious sweet potato pie. She never expected it to be used to kill anyone, but it looks like that is what happened. When Grandy Jaspers, a 75-year-old neighborhood womanizer, drops dead at one of her tables, Savvy finds that her pie and restaurant are under investigation. Even when his death is deemed an accident, Savvy’s pie and entire restaurant are not cleared in public opinion. It is certainly looking bad for Essie’s Soul Food Café when Savvy and her assistant decide that they have to find out who killed Jasper because someone undoubtedly did kill him. At least her ex-husband helps her at least a little bit.

I enjoyed this book. The characters were believable And I was ready to try some of that pie!

Thanks for reading!