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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780553574678
ISBN number: 0553574671
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: February 29, 2000
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: February 29, 2000
Sale Popularity Level: 194458
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A caterer's nightmare...
Caterer Goldy Schulz is convinced things couldn't get worse. An unscrupulous rival is driving her out of business. An incompetent contractor has left her precious kitchen in shambles. And she has just agreed to cater a fashion shoot at a nineteenth-century mountain cabin with her mentor and old friend, French chef André Hibbard.
A dash of cold-blooded murder...
Together Goldy and André struggle in a hopelessly outdated kitchen to cater to a vacuous crowd of beautiful people whose personal dramas climax when a camera is pitched through a window...into the buffet. Then Goldy's contractor is found hanging in the house of one of her best friends. A second murder follows and Goldy must somehow solve a mystery and prepare for a society soirée that could make--or break--her career.
A recipe for disaster...
It's a mystery that involves the dead contractor's unwholesome past, a food saboteur, the theft of four historical cookbooks, and an overzealous D.A. who has suspended Goldy's detective husband, Tom, from the force. What Goldy discovers is the perfect recipe for murder. And she may be dessert!
Amazon.com Review:
You could die from reading one of Diane Mott Davidson's culinary mysteries: this one includes recipes for Jailbreak Potatoes (butter, whipping cream, freshly grated Parmesan cheese) and Labor Day Flourless Chocolate Cake with Berries, Melba Sauce, and White Chocolate Cream (butter, chocolate, eggs, sugar, whipping cream). So you might want to take both the recipes and Davidson's pinball machine-like plots in small bites. This time, caterer Goldy Schulz careens between the worlds of contracting and high fashion models, with bodies from both camps falling into the food. It's all in fun, and readers have been lapping up Davidson's merry mélanges with increasing appetite. Catering to Nobody, The Cereal Murders, Dying for Chocolate, The Grilling Season, Killer Pancake, and The Main Corpse are available on the paperback menu. --Dick Adler
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This is one of those mysteries where it feels as if Murphy must really hate the characters - everything goes wrong for them, and it takes on an air of unbelievably. Plus Goldy doesn't always do much to help herself out of bad situations and occasionally comes across as overly whiny. She's a bit on the annoying side, certainly not what I'd call a strong female protagonist, despite her crime-fighting abilities. Perhaps if she put some of the effort into helping herself that she puts into helping other people she'd be a more likeable character. I'm not sure. However, it might be that I've been reading them out of order and that is proving a little disconcerting. Unlike the Mrs. Pollifax adventures, it's really hard to jump back and forth with Goldy and her catering woes - there are far too many other things that are tied to the story that run throughout the books. Even so, I found myself transfixed by another murder case (it's amazing how many people get killed around these armchair detectives!) that Goldy has to use all of her sleuthing powers to solve. They are nice, fluffy ready, and I plan to try to start at the beginning and work my way through them in order. Because although each book can stand alone, maybe reading them in order will help me better understand the characters and their motivations, since right now they seem a little two-dimensional.
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This was the very first time I've read any books in this series and the very first in this genre. I have inadvertently picked up a second, third or even fourth book in a series and can't wait to get my hands on the others. Not the case here. I continued reading because my cousin gave it to me and we have the same reading preferences. I was also convinced that it would get better in the subsequent chapter. It never did and it took me over a month to get through it when it should have only taken a few nights at most. There were some good and likeable characters in the story, though. But, at the same time, there were too many characters that didn't move the story along. I am giving this book two stars only because I managed to get through it but it is quite forgettable.
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How many times have I read this book? Three? Four? Five??? In any case, it never fails to enthrall me.
Davidson does such an excellent job of pulling the reader into the world of Aspen Meadows and Goldy Schultz. I read the books as much for the characters as for the mystery, and I'm never disappointed. This volume has a strong plot and great characterization.
Vintage Davidson. Don't miss it.
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Goldy, the caterer, is up to her eyeballs in trouble in this 8th. book of the series. Her business is dropping off because of competition from the sleazy Craig Litchfield, who will stop at nothing steal Goldy's customers. Things seem to be looking up when her old teacher, Andre, invites her to help him with a catering job for a fashion photo shoot. Unfortunately, about this time Gerald Eliot, an unscrupulous contractor, is found dead at the home of Cameron Barr, Goldy's friend, and the assistant D.A., Andy Fuller, is convinced that Barr is the murderer. Goldy and her husband Tom try to defend their friend and in the process, Fuller accuses Tom of obstructing a murder investigation and suspends him from the police force. Craig Litchfield knows that Goldy is in financial trouble and he offers to buy her business. Other sub-plots deal with son Arch's love life and an IRS audit of Goldy's friend Marla. One more person dies and another character is badly hurt, before the killer finally comes out of the woodwork and confronts Goldy. This is a good addition to the series, although at times it's hard to keep up with all of the plots and subplots.
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"Prime Cut" is Diane Mott Davidson at the top of her form, and the recipes---although fattening and non-too healthy!---are scrumptious in this book. Goldy's grand-spanking-new kitchen is left in a mess by an unreliable contractor, so she is catering "on the road" and has a contract for lunches for a group of fashion models at a catalogue shoot.
This tale of murder in the Rockies, served up in great form by Davidson, will keep you turning pages till the end. Recommended.
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