Double Shot (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 12)
by Diane Mott Davidson
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Author: Diane Mott DavidsonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Print
Published: 2005-08-30
ISBN: 0060527307
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: HarperTorch
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- Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson
- A Goldy Schulz Mystery, Book # 12 with Recipes, like Double-Shot Chocolate Cake
- "New York Times" Bestseller
- First Harper Torch Paperback Printing, September, 2005
- ISBN-10: 0060527307, ISBN-13: 978-0060527303
Book Reviews of Double Shot (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 12)
Book Review: Convoluted Whodunit
Summary: 5 Stars
Double Shot features the death and crimes of Dr. John Richard Korman as unraveled by his ex-wife Goldy Shultz while she is busy trying to continue to make her living as a caterer in the Denver suburbs. Those of us who read the other eleven books in the series, are familiar with her catering career and I was happy to note that it must be going well as in this book we find out early on that she has leased an old restaurant to have a regular venue for her catered events. In the past, we have learned of Dr. Korman's abusive personality and that while he was invariably charming to outsiders, his wives and girlfriends rarely escaped being beaten or worse. As a matter of fact, in the previous books, Dr. Korman was jailed after beating one girlfriend who complained.
In the first chapter of this book, Goldy is catering a funeral lunch for a colleague of her ex-husband. Bringing in the dessert in the morning of the event, she is attacked, beaten, and her food is spoiled while mice and rotten fish are spread throughout her new kitchen area. Not only that, but once she manages to recover the luncheon, her ex-husband shows up with his current girlfriend and creates a scene in front of the whole lunch crowd with Goldy. The next major event in the chapter is that his bullet riddled body is discovered by Goldy a few hours later and Goldy's gun is found next to his body.
So, with all the clues pointing to her, is it any wonder that the police and everyone else suspects her for finally and permanently getting rid of her ex-husband? Goldy puts on her investigative hat, calls on her friends and colleagues, and launches into an investigation of who really killed the ex. This causes even more complications as her current husband is a local police investigator who has his own problems to resolve; her son goes through various stages of grief and turns out to be harboring some secrets of his own and so forth.
Eventually, a second body is discovered, and then a third and a fourth, and a fifth death is connected to the first. None of these seem to be connected at first, but do come together in the end. The conclusion of the story ties it all together and neatly explains how children born out of wedlock fifteen years ago were connected to a rape eight years before, and then connected to a rash of murders in the present time. The story is fiendishly complicated and it takes most of the 350 pages before you are capable of figuring out the various connections. Let me offer one clue only, this is actually a story of the life of Dr. John Richard Korman - Goldy is an almost accidental participant!
I found this mystery to be delightful to read. The crimes were not simple and the plot was extremely imaginative. In addition to pointing out the difference between a man/woman relationship that is based on sex or lust, it points out relationships that are based on true love. The complicated personal relationships of the various characters that we normally find in this series continue to evolve in very believable ways - as the father of teenaged boys, I could understand Goldy's frustrations with reaching to her 15 year old son and his maturing as the story progressed.
Of course this story is fantastical in the way in which Goldy manages to pull all the pieces together while hordes of policemen - including her crack investigator of a husband - are uselessly running around trying to pin down the murder on Goldy! The resolution of the story into two or three parallel threads was ingeniously done but the tie-in between the threads was a bit too threadbare to be believable. But never mind these minor quibbles; this was an excellent story and a great book to read in this genre!
Recommended.
By the way, since this book features a caterer, there are a whole slew of recipes that are mentioned in the book, included in the back of the book. While I have yet to make any of them, several of them have been copied and placed in my stack of "must try" recipes!
Summary of Double Shot (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 12)
Caterer supreme Goldy Schulz has more on her plate than she can handle. Her ultra-charming, ultra-wealthy, and seriously psychopathic ex-husband, Dr. John Richard Korman (aka "the Jerk"), is free now that the governor of Colorado has commuted his prison sentence. And someone -- the Jerk, perhaps -- has taken great pains to sabotage Goldy's latest culinary endeavor, a post-funeral reception for a friend at a local lodge.
But even more than the anonymous threats, rumors, and violence that have lately been directed Goldy's way, it's her discovery of a fresh corpse that really spoils the stew -- a murder that could tear her family to pieces, a murder that virtually everyone believes Goldy committed.
True, she's been efficiently framed, but at least she's still breathing, which may not be the case for long, if she doesn't track down a killer who's cooked up a very nasty repast for Goldy and the people she loves.
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