Sweet Revenge

Starred review from July 30, 2007
Bestseller Davidson is at the top of her form in her 14th culinary suspense novel to feature Colorado crime-solving caterer Goldy Schulz (after 2006's Dark Tort
). As the Christmas season approaches, Goldy is thrilled to be catering not only a breakfast for the local library but also an elegant dinner for Hermie and Smithfield MacArthur, rich Southern transplants to Aspen Meadow. But when the body of Drew Wellington, the disgraced former DA, turns up in the library, Goldy is once again forced to put her recipes on the back burner and find the murderer. Discovering that Wellington was dabbling in antique map collecting, Goldy must track down a priceless map and steer clear of Wellington's fellow collectors, ex-girlfriends and clients. Further complicating matters are sightings of the allegedly deceased Sandee Brisbane, the young woman accused of murdering Goldy's ex-husband and then supposedly perishing in a forest fire. Readers will happily sink their teeth into Goldy's latest case and come away hungry for more. 11-city author tour.

Starred review from September 1, 2007
In her 14th adventure, caterer Goldy Schulz is preparing a holiday breakfast for the staff and volunteers of the Aspen Meadow Public Library when the head librarian finds the body of a man in the stacks. A rare map that he had for sale is missing. Adding spice to this story line are sightings of Sandee Brisbane, the woman who murdered Goldy's ex-husband and who supposedly died in a forest fire, in the stacks and near the body of another map dealer. Of course, Goldy starts nosing around and causing much trouble for her police detective husband. If you have not read Davidson's culinary cozies in a while, try this one. With an entertaining plot and out-of-this-world recipes, it proves that the author is in top-notch form. The author lives in Colorado. [See Mystery Prepub, "LJ" 5/1/07.]

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September 15, 2007
Caterer and amateur detective Goldy Shulz, as familiar with the ways of crime as with the flavor of thyme, makes another eagerly awaited appearance. Asked to prepare a Christmas breakfast for staff and volunteers at a local public library in Colorados mountains, an astonished Goldy encounters the apparent specter of a woman who had killed Goldys abusive ex-husband some years earlier before herself immolated in a raging forest fire. Then a former district attorney turns up dead in the same library, and the police inform Goldy that the dead man had been the target of threats from an unknown e-mailer using the county librarys computer network. Goldy has to ferret out the disparate motives behind these violent deaths while keeping up with her catering businesss peak season. Davidsons mastery of the murder mystery coupled with the current fascination with cooking as entertainment offers her new work appeal across several groups of readers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)