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Tough Cookie (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery #9)
Fans of Diane Mott Davidson's Goldy Schulz, the gourmet gumshoe of Aspen Meadow, Colorado, love her modus operandi: "Treat every puzzle with questions and chocolate." In Tough Cookie, Davidson's ninth culinary mystery, Goldy is waiting to reopen her catering business, which has been shut down by the health department for lack of adequate drains. She's got a PBS cooking gig...more
Hardcover, 291 pages
Published
February 29th 2000
by Bantam
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Diane Mott Davidson’s books are a tantalizing morsel for the overworked homesick Colorado Native or anyone with a desire to read a well-constructed mystery without unnecessary verbal or descriptive vulgarity. Tough Cookie is another mystery set in the Aspen Meadows mountain resort town where Goldy Schulz runs a catering business from her home with the assistance of Julian her sue chef and the support of her second husband Tom and son Arch from her first marriage to an abusive OB/GYN. Diane Mott...more
You know how there are certain authors that you just keep going back for more? Well, Diane Mott Davidson is one of those authors for me. Her books are like really yummy cookies. You just can’t help yourself, you have to keep going back for more.
Tough Cookie is no exception to that. Everyone’s favorite caterer, Goldy Schulz, is once again meddling in the affairs of the police.
After finding the dead body of a sort of ex-boyfriend that she was skiing with, Goldy finds herself trying to find out wh...more
Tough Cookie is no exception to that. Everyone’s favorite caterer, Goldy Schulz, is once again meddling in the affairs of the police.
After finding the dead body of a sort of ex-boyfriend that she was skiing with, Goldy finds herself trying to find out wh...more
Touch Cookie is the first book I've read in this popular series, and it failed to hook me as a fan. But that's fine--I'm just one reader. I rather like a series with gimmicks, though, like the recipes Diane Mott Davidson scatters throughout her books. I may try the crab cakes and ginger snaps described in this one.
The setting was well done, and I feel almost as though I've visited the slopes of the Colorado ski resorts in winter. (With my aversions to cold and heights, it's a setting I prefer to...more
The setting was well done, and I feel almost as though I've visited the slopes of the Colorado ski resorts in winter. (With my aversions to cold and heights, it's a setting I prefer to...more
Once again Goldy is trying to figure out who killed someone because somehow she is mistakenly blamed. Amazingly enough she is often in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this next book in the series she has to take a ski lift during Christmas season to be filmed for a PBS tv series. Who knows how, but the guy she wanted to sell her husband's vintage World War II skis to is killed and it looks like she was trying to bribe him to keep the Jerk in jail longer, as he was the person in charge of t...more
This series has grown, and I like the changes it’s making. Not only has Goldie and her family grown and changed, she has ‘matured’ too. She doesn’t do (as many) stupid things as she used to (I equate it to the girl that goes by herself down in to the dark basement in a horror movie.). I think Tom has been a good influence on her. And yet they are not less interesting, and there is not less action. For a caterer she gets sucked in to a lot. I like that they are light, fast reads. It bothered me a...more
I loved the concept of Goldy hosting a cooking show. I also loved the idea of her getting some distance from Aspen Meadow. The cooking show didn't play as well as I had hoped, but the distance and exposure to new people seemed to breath some much needed life into Goldy. The mystery kept me guessing and the recipes were mouth-watering (mmm, Mexican Egg Rolls with Spicy Guacamole Dipping Sauce.) The last, inevitable, fleeing from the killer scene has stuck with me and seemed painfully realistic, b...more
Book nine in the Goldy Culinary Mysteries.
With her catering business shut down due to a lack of proper drains in her newly remodeled kitchen, Goldy is going a little stir-crazy--and wondering how she's going to keep her bills paid. She decides to sell a pair of antique skis to an old boyfriend. Unfortunately, he is killed before she gets the cash. And, as he just happens to be on the Parole Board, and in a position to deny "the Jerk's" request for early parole, Goldy finds herself back in the so...more
With her catering business shut down due to a lack of proper drains in her newly remodeled kitchen, Goldy is going a little stir-crazy--and wondering how she's going to keep her bills paid. She decides to sell a pair of antique skis to an old boyfriend. Unfortunately, he is killed before she gets the cash. And, as he just happens to be on the Parole Board, and in a position to deny "the Jerk's" request for early parole, Goldy finds herself back in the so...more
Goldy is at it again. Solving mysteries, drinking tons of coffee and making wonderful things to eat. I would love to be her friend. This is the 3rd Diane Mott Davidson book that I will have read. These books are light mysteries with a little humor mixed in along with a few recipes. I like reading about cooking/baking/caterers and imagining that I know someone who does this. In other words, don't expect to get fresh, made from scratch anything at my house. But you'll find tons of books and some c...more
I really enjoy this series. Not great literature but entertaining and fun and clean without foul language. Not the series you want to read if you're on a diet as there are a lot of descriptions of really yummy sounding recipes. The printed books have the recipes printed at the end. I always listen and don't have the patience to write down while listening, but I've got more recipes than I'll ever get to. Anyway, since Goldie was unkindly referred to as the "corpulent queen of cream" in the course...more
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What better way to pass the time while handing out goodies to Halloween trick or treaters than finishing the last several chapters of a spine tingling mystery novel! If my senses are stimulated by the author's many descriptive passages than I can easily lose myself in the story line. Much of the action occurs at a popular Colorado ski resort in December and in between gondola rides to the Bistro at the top Goldy fulfills her responsibility as a caterer by preparing several scrumptious entrees, a...more
Unfourtunately for Goldy, a lot could go wrong. Horrible snow storms covering the land which makes her driving back and forth between home and work hazardous to her health, and the job isn't quite doing what she needed it to do to begin with. She's only booked one client for her personal chef buisness, and that her boss at the PBS station.
Add on a murder, attempted murder via car plunging down side of a mountain, and threats against her family and you have a fun little mystery set in the moutain...more
Add on a murder, attempted murder via car plunging down side of a mountain, and threats against her family and you have a fun little mystery set in the moutain...more
Goldilocks Catering has been shut down by the health department. Inadequate drains, they say; so Goldy Shulz, Colorado's double threat chef/detective, has turned her hand to hosting a cooking show on Public Television while her husband fixes the plumbing. Her commute to work involves riding to the top of the Killdeer Ski Lift in a gondola and skiing to the doors of the Bistro, a posh restaurant atop a windswept peak, which, of course, sets up danger-filled situations as Goldy becomes embroiled i...more
an excellant story hard to tell who the killer is . when goldys catering business is shut down because she needs different drains in her kitchen. she takes a job doing a pbs cooking show. and tries to become a personal chef . in the meantime they decide to sell some antique skis to pay for new drains . goldy contacts a former boyfriend who is a collector and when he winds up dead on the ski slope in a closed area.. goldy gets involved because she discovers his body.. it keeps you in suspense th...more
Sep 10, 2012
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As always, a very tasty read. About halfway through I summarized the story for my wife. When she said, “It must be X”, I told her X couldn’t possibly be the killer: and sure enough she was right. And even after X had been identified I wasn’t prepared for the dénouement.
The recipes for the Chocolate Coma Cookies and the Marmalade Mogul Muffins both look extremely tempting. I’ll have to try them out.
The recipes for the Chocolate Coma Cookies and the Marmalade Mogul Muffins both look extremely tempting. I’ll have to try them out.
Goldy Bear #9. Goldy's kitchen has been shut down by the health department because of inadequate drains, just before Christmas. So, she accepts an assignment to do a multi-part PBS cooking show at a local ski resort. When an ex-boyfriend and member of the parole board is killed, Goldy again starts investigating. Typical Davidson fare. Marginal holiday mention.
I'm drawn in by recipes scattered throughout the book but only tried one recipe and wasn't crazy about it. I like the genre enough to keep trying it every once in a while but have trouble with the name of the title character and her slow-to-realize "that guy's trying to kill me" persona. I don't like that the main character makes clumsy mistakes.
This one started out very slow for me, once I got over the first 100 pages the pace picked up. I still had a little trouble as the main mystery was overshadowed but two events that are mentioned throughout the book, if we could give half stars I would have given this a 3 1/2. I have been reading the series on and off for the past year and I do enjoy them and will continue to read every chance I get.
A definite page-turner!
The book speeds along at a pace that doesn't allow any "dry spells". It keeps you thinking "Just one more page then I'll go to bed" until it's 5am and you realise you have to be up soon.
For my full review, check out my blog http://tubchairtimes.blogspot.ca/2012...
The book speeds along at a pace that doesn't allow any "dry spells". It keeps you thinking "Just one more page then I'll go to bed" until it's 5am and you realise you have to be up soon.
For my full review, check out my blog http://tubchairtimes.blogspot.ca/2012...
This series starring the accessible caterer Goldy, with recipes to go with each installment, and her abusive ex-husband "the Jerk", her son, his friend, their dog, and ultimately her new husband is a good series, each one enjoyable, no noticable deterioration over time, and the emphasis on food isn't perfect but it is very good
I am still enjoying these books right now. They don't require much from the reader, have fun characters and lots of interesting recipes and add a mystery to boot. I am cruising through her books before I even have much of a chance to try her recipes. I still want to do the roast tenderloin with bernaise sauce.
Found this light culinary murder mystery a bit tedious with Goldy commuting back and forth and going up and down the mountain to her "Cooking at the Top" show. Out of all the far-fetched scenarios in the book the idea of staging a PBS cooking show at a mountaintop bistro with little preparation and no makeup to speak of bugged me.
Goldy, while doing a PBS cooking show, finds a mystery on the ski slopes. Her kitchen closed by the health inspector because of faulty drains, Goldy finds new ways to stay in the food business. One is the cooking show and another is working as a personal chef. Gunshots and avalanches add excitement to this culinary mystery.
Engaging mysteries, and fun recipes! The only thing I don't like about these books are her relationship with her son, and the fact that characters who are considered "good friends" seem to appear and disappear at random! Otherwise I recommend them, they definitely suck you in.
really interesting and funny. I'd never read a real ADULT book before this, just YA, but I am looking out for this series now. Also comes with delicious recipes since the main character is a cook. She's also a snoop so she runs into lots of trouble. So funny!!
This was a very well crafted and enjoyable mystery. It reminded me a lot of Mary Daheim's mysteries. I really enjoyed it and found she was very good with the tension. The only drawback is the recipes. I always find these mysteries with recipes or hints seem to detract from the story itself.
This being the first book of Davidson's I picked up, and since it is the 9th in a series, perhaps I will give one of the earlier ones a try. Not a lot of character development, but I suppose that is what the first eight books did.
As engaging as ever, Davidson delivers another tasty morsel with Goldy's latest adventure. With twists and turns that'll keep you guessing, and the same comfortable core of main characters, it's a definite winner - and the recipes are...dare I say it?...to die for.
These satisfy my need for a fun escape read. This one takes place, much of the time, at the top of a ski slope at a restaurant in a ski resort town. I usually listen to the audio version with Barbara Rosenblatt.
Goldy is doing a cooking show for her local PBS station at a ski resort. But she receives numerous threats, and with four mysterious murders at the resort, she needs to figure out what's going on! Enjoyable read.
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New York Times bestselling author Diane Mott Davidson wrote three novels before one was accepted for publication—when she was 41. She has since written 14 more mysteries, all featuring Goldy the caterer. In addition, she has written short stories and poetry for various publications. Davidson has won the Anthony Award from Bouchercon, and has been nominated for the Agatha, another Anthony, and the...more
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Oct 18, 2012 05:01am