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Title: Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson ISBN: 0-553-56024-7 Publisher: Crimeline Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The book was good, but the cookies were GREAT!
Comment: I really enjoyed this book, the first I'd read by Davidson. The heroine, Goldie, is a single mom struggling to deal with her own business, her abusive ex, her dead boyfriend,her son, her helper, and her unconventional living situation. But, like any stalwart heroine, she still finds time for chocolate. The plot of the mystery is interesting, but what really sets this book (and the series apart) is Davidson's skill in portraying complex characters, rather than entertaining clue chasers. Goldie is an actual person who when faced with a mystery, can't just drop everything and solve it. She, like all of us, has to deal with work and family first. Congratulations, Ms. Davidson, on writing a smart, funny, compelling series about real people!
Oh yeah, and about the cookies. Exactly how big a batch can you make of lethal layers before it becomes unmanageable? I'm only asking because making them every few days is getting tedious. The books in this series are the only mysteries I own with grease stains.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dying For Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson
Comment: Diane Mott Davidson has created a character that has more problems than anyone person should have to deal with. But she has Goldy or better know as "Miss Goldy" handling it all with a quality that makes you laugh along with her mishaps. The story starts when an old friend, that she's been dating, is killed in a car accident. Goldy is following him for a date to have coffee when he crases head on into a bus. What persues after the "accident" keeps you wanting more of Miss Goldy and her wacky friends, her son, and her crazed abusive ex-husband the "JERK" (of course these are the initials of his name, but some how very fitting), and the cop that she is seeing off and on but more off lately with the reappearance of Phillip in her life. Diane Mott Davidson keeps you entertained and intrigued at the same time. You'll enjoy this book immensely and want to read every book with her delightful and funny character, "Miss Goldy"
Rating: 2
Summary: Not so tasty
Comment: I enjoyed Davidson's first culinary mystery, but this one left a bad taste in my mouth. The method of murder was just too implausable to be believed. Also, Davidson is really stretching it trying to make us believe a caterer in a small Colorado town happens to bump into so many people with scandalous pasts, murderous intentions and access to various poisons. Arch and Tom Schultz both annoy me. I don't know what Goldy sees in Tom, and Arch needs a smack across the mouth! Someone needs to shake Goldy, come to think of it, for letting her son get away with so much!
Too bad. I really wanted to like this series, but I'm not inspired to read any more Davidson novels.
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Title: The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson ISBN: 055356773X Publisher: Crimeline Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson ISBN: 0553584707 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson ISBN: 055357258X Publisher: Crimeline Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Killer Pancake by Diane Mott Davidson ISBN: 0553572040 Publisher: Crimeline Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Main Corpse by Diane Mott Davidson ISBN: 0553574639 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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