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The Sweet Spot

By: Lori Rader-Day
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
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You can listen to this feel-good story for free on your device with the Audible Stories Skill. Just say “Alexa, read me a feel good story,” or “Alexa, read me a story” to hear more free genres.

A weary Chicago shop owner catches yet another kid breaking into her bakeshop. The rumor has gone around her inner-city neighborhood that she's keeping cash in a sugar jar and, however unlikely, local kids keep trying to confirm it. With the latest miscreant, she decides to take matters into her own hands.

Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar® Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She lives in Chicago, where she is co-chair of the mystery readers’ festival Midwest Mystery Conference (fka Murder and Mayhem in Chicago) and served as 2019-2020 national president of Sisters in Crime. She teaches creative writing for Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.

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This is a really nice listen. The narrator's voice is so soothing and relaxing and the story itself is a short tale of community and redemption. A feel good story if you will.

Surprisingly good.

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