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Dark Tort: A Novel of Suspense (Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries)

by Diane Mott Davidson

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ISBN13: 9780060527310
ISBN10: 0060527315
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The New York Times bestselling author cooks up a knockout treat featuring the irrepressible caterer Goldy Schulz

"I tripped over the body of

Dusty Routt at half past ten on the

night of October 19. . . ."

Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference-room snacks for a local law firm. It's time-consuming, but Goldy is enjoying it — until the night she arrives to find Dusty, the firm's paralegal, dead.

The poor young woman also happened to be Goldy's friend and neighbor, and now Dusty's grieving mother begs Goldy to find out who murdered her daughter.Just because the police are on the case doesn't mean Goldy can't do a little snooping herself.

While catering a party at the home of one of the firm's lawyers, she manages to overhear an incriminating conversation and ends up discovering a few clues in the kitchen.

Before long, Goldy is knee-deep in suspects, one of whom is incredibly dangerous and very liable to cook Goldy's goose.

Review:

"At the start of bestseller Davidson's delicious 13th culinary adventure featuring caterer Goldy Schulz (after 2004's Double Shot), Goldy stumbles over the body of neighbor Dusty Routt, a paralegal at Hanrahan & Jule, a boutique law firm in Aspen Meadow, Colo., with which Goldy has a lucrative contract to provide breakfasts and occasional lunches for its attorneys and well-heeled clients. By all accounts, Dusty's future was bright, no longer overshadowed by a tragic, poverty-stricken past. Her untimely death shatters her mother and grandfather, still reeling from the death of her brother while in police custody. When Dusty's mother, who distrusts the police, asks Goldy to investigate, the caterer feels she can't refuse. Between catering jobs, teaching son Arch how to drive and assuaging her own grief, Goldy chases down clues with the help of her policeman husband, Tom, and her catering partners. Though a few stones remain unturned (perhaps intentionally), Davidson delivers another entertaining whodunit with delectable recipes." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Double Shot" cooks up a knockout treat featuring irrepressible caterer Goldy Schulz. "The divine diva of the culinary cozy."--"Publishers Weekly" starred review.

Synopsis:

Diane Mott Davidson, "the divine diva of the culinary cozy" ("Publishers Weekly"), and bestselling author of "Double Shot," cooks up a new knockout treat of a mystery featuring irrepressible caterer Goldy Schulz.

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About the Author

Diane Mott Davidson is the author of thirteen bestselling novels featuring the irresistible Goldy Schulz. She lives in Colorado with her family.
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Linda Shelnutt, May 27, 2006 (view all comments by Linda Shelnutt)
Mesmerized by the luscious book jacket on DARK TORT, I picked up the hardback with my right hand, and ran my left fingertips over the face of the cool, smooth, brail effective jacket. I was more than ready to pick up on what this author had done subtly differently this time to continue infusing her stories with the edge and surge which had kept them riding tips of waves of cravings for culinary mysteries.

A riveting intensity in the opening scene of DARK TORT (the legal term for wrongful act, not ?torte? as in pastry) was sparked by the first sentence of chapter one, page one. But what welded the rivets for me was the culinary catastrophe in the third paragraph:

?The bag of flour I was carrying slid from my hands and exploded on the carpet. Two jars of yeast plummeted onto the coffee table, where they burst into shards and powder. My last bottle of molasses sailed in a wide arc and cracked onto the receptionist?s cherry-wood desk. A thick wave of sweet, dark liquid began a gluey descent across the phone console. My steel bowl of bread sponge catapulted out or my arms and hit the wall.?

With each sensory impression in that paragraph having opened gateways into my mind, I would be reading onward with awakened interest.

The first 40 pages had the feel of a nightmare; I had half expected Goldy to suddenly point to her pillow, at a place to ponder about the dream, which would, of course, be a clue to a murder which would occur later, in the waking state.

Ironically, those first 40 pages also had the feel of the reality of ?tripping over a dead body? (of a close friend) and dealing with that type of emotional/mental/spiritual trauma, compiled with the ongoing chill of threatening police procedural impositions impregnated with that metallic taste/smell, which Goldy made note of a few times during those opening pages, usually in reference to heat systems blowing warm air with that blood chilling flavor.

Goldy cooks up storms of clues in her spaciously gourmet, commercial kitchen, simultaneous to sorting through the ones which come ?round to bat her body and soul while she?s in an eternal state of grieving exhaustion (to which, as faithful readers, we?ve become happily addicted). So, how does she ever GET anywhere? That spring-loaded titanium back bone. And Tom?s hugs accompanied by his ?to die for? sharing of the career-laden-Mom-homemaker?s loads of eternal daily duties. Then there?s ESPRESSO, the Energizer Bunny bean!

Couldn?t love more the way Goldy snarls at anyone who has the wherewithal or gall to trash the natural, real values of caffeine, butter, eggs, and/or creme.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060527310
Subtitle:
A Novel of Suspense
Author:
Davidson, Diane Mott
Author:
by Diane Mott Davidson
Publisher:
William Morrow & Company
Subject:
General
Subject:
Cookery
Subject:
Humorous
Subject:
Lawyers
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
Humorous fiction
Series:
Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries
Publication Date:
April 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
312
Dimensions:
9.18x6.72x1.09 in. 1.23 lbs.
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