Sticks & Scones (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 10) - Softcover

Davidson, Diane Mott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553578316 ISBN 13: 9780553578317

Publisher: Bantam, 2002

Synopsis

Celebrated for her unique blend of first-class suspense and five-star fare, Diane Mott Davidson has won scores of fans and earned a place on major bestseller lists across the country. Now she dishes up another dangerously tasty treat of murder and mystery.

For Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, accepting a series of bookings at Hyde Castle is like a dream come true. It’s not every day that she gets to cook authentic Elizabethan fare--especially at a real castle that was brought over from England and reassembled stone by stone in Aspen Meadow. Goldy is determined that everything will go right--which is why, she figures later, everything went terribly wrong. It begins when a shotgun blast shatters her window. Then Goldy discovers a body lying in a nearby creek. And when shots ring out for the second time that day, someone Goldy loves is in the line of fire. Suddenly the last thing Goldy wants to think about is Shakespeare’s Steak Pie, 911 Chocolate Emergency Cookies, or Damson-in-Distress Plum Tart. Could one of her husband Tom’s police investigations have triggered a murder? Or was her violent, recently paroled ex responsible? With death peering around every corner, Goldy needs to cook up some crime-solving solutions--before the only dish that’s left on her menu is murder.

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Review

Her first big catering gig in weeks has Goldy Bear Schulz salivating. But before she can collect her Elizabethan-inspired recipes (Queen of Scots Shortbread, Damson-in-Distress Plum Tart) and hie herself to the restored English castle in Colorado where she's putting on a donor's luncheon in Hyde Chapel and a high school fencing banquet in the castle's Great Room, someone blows a hole in her living room window. No sooner has she unloaded her pots and pans at the catering venue than another someone--or maybe the same one--shoots a hole in her detective husband, Tom. To make matters worse, Goldy's ex-husband has just been released from jail, and he seems to have a few reasons to want to kill her, too.

Between trying to solve the riddle of the castle ghost, keep her son Arch and her wounded husband safe, and get the food on the table while it's still hot, Goldy is up to her elbows in trouble. The would-be lord of the manor still looks like a business-builder for Goldy, but his Swiss-born wife seems a little wacky. And even from a sickbed, Tom's got a crime wave on his hands that seems to involve Goldy's ex, his flashy new girlfriend, the castle owner, and the dead man Goldy found floating in the castle moat. Not to mention a woman Tom once loved, who seems to have returned from the dead and is causing Goldy no end of distress. But Diane Mott Davidson's gutsy, multitalented series heroine (Prime Cut, Tough Cookie) triumphs again--the proof is in the reading as well as the eating in this fast-paced, frothy dessert. --Jane Adams

From the Back Cover

Five-star praise for the New York Times bestselling mysteries of Diane Mott Davidson, "The Julia Child of mystery writers"*

"Today foremost practitioner of culinary whodunit."
-- Entertainment Weekly

"A cross between Mary Higgins Clark and Betty Crocker!"
-- The Sun, Baltimore

"You don't have to be a cook or a mystery fan to love Diane Mott Davidson books. But if you're either-or both- her tempting recipes are elaborate plots add up to a literary feast!
-- The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Diane Mott Davidson's culinary mysteries can be hazardous to your waistline."
-- People

"Davidson has found the recipe for bestsellers."
-- The Atlantic Constitution

*Colorado Spring Gazette Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0553578316
• ISBN 13: 9780553578317
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368