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Tough Cookie
by Diane Mott Davidson (Reader: Cherry Jones)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Random House Audio (2000-02-29)
ISBN: 0553526871
EAN: 9780553526875
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
Release Date: 2000-02-29
SKU: C004NCK
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Read by Cherry Jones
3 Cassettes, Approx. 5 hours
Winter sports can be dangerous, but can they also be deadly? "Cooking at the Top!" Goldy's new TV show is broadcast from one of Colorado's poshest ski areas. Unfortunately, she finds whipping up delicacies at 11,000 feet as perilous as skiing steep runs. When a telethon raising money for the widow of a tracker killed mysteriously ends in disaster, Goldy finds herself searching the icy slopes for a killer with desperate secrets to hide. This may be one time the tough-cookie caterer won't be able to schuss to safety!
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Amazon.com Review
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 for a few weeks, and is trying to build a reputation as a personal chef, but she's desperate for a little extra Christmas cash, so she agrees to sell a pair of vintage skis to Doug Portman, a local art critic and former sort-of-romantic interest. When Portman's killed in a skiing accident at Killdeer Resort with Goldy nearby, the police treat her with suspicion. It turns out that Portman was the easily persuaded head of the Parole Board, and Goldy's ex-husband (a.k.a. The Jerk, who was imprisoned for domestic violence) is coming up for parole. But when Goldy herself narrowly escapes a chilly death after her van is forced off a snowy highway, she starts looking for connections and steps into a minefield of unsolved murders, including the three-year-old avalanche death of her friend Nate Bullock. There're a multitude of suspicious characters lurking around Killdeer: Barton Reed, a crazy ex-con who sent Portman a letter loaded with poison; Arthur Wakefield, whose wealthy mother was also killed in a skiing accident at Killdeer; Jack Gilkey, a handsome young chef who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Wakefield's mother (and released by Portman); Boots Faraday, a local artist; and even Rorry Bullock, Nate's angry widow. As usual, Goldy manages to solve the murders (with the help of Chocolate Coma Cookies), save her own skin (just!), skewer a few local snobs in passing, and revive her catering business. Lots of fun, and recipes too. --Barrie Trinkle
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Customer Reviews
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A decent enough cozy
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-04-22
While not the first book of the series, this is the first one I read. And it stood pretty much on its own, though I'm sure reading the series in order would give you better context as far as some of the character's actions are concerned. And I admit, I picked this one because it had a picture of a "cutesy" chef (but with a scowl) cookie jar holding a gun on the cover. And, unlike choosing Nerd in Shining Armour by its title, this gamble wasn't half bad. It was an enjoyable story with some decent characters, and every time you thought you really, really had it figured out there was a twist. It really kept you guessing, which is a pleasant surprise in a mystery novel these days. Though the characters weren't the greatest, the mystery portion was well written and the overall story drew you in - enough that I'll probably read another in the series.
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Junior high level murder mystery...and that's going a long way!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-08-30
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I picked up this book in a used booked store in Powell River, British Columbia, while waiting for a ferry to Vancouver. I didn't know that culinary murder mysteries was a genre and this book was part of a series of similar mishaps. Where was the warning label?
The author sets up her heroine as a gourmet-wannabe Nancy Drew running after inept murderers while strewing recipe cards along her trail. She dishes out food descriptions ad nauseam and then raves over them until you want to gag her with a kitchen towel. All the while, she insults her readers' intelligence by serving up as novelty that age old recipe of suspecting the evil looking guy first, and then making her model character the evil culprit!
If you're a fan of this author's work you'll probably enjoy it. But if this is your first time try, be aware that it is definitely an acquired taste. I'll pass on seconds.
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Delish Mystery
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-07-29
I discovered Diane Mott Davidson with this book and was so glad I did. I immediately went backward and read the rest of the series, and I'm still reading forward, moving toward her latest PB release Dark Tort. I highly recommend this series. Goldy is a caterer and a sleuth. Each mystery tale comes with a delicious list of recipes (prepared by Goldy during the course of the story). In Tough Cookie, Goldy is temporarily hosting a local TV cooking show when so much goes wrong! Cooking disasters on the set, a blizzard, and then a dead body. She finds it herself and unfortunately for her, it turns out to be her ex-boyfriend. Goldy begins to investigate to determine whether her ex was murdered or not. And it leads to real danger for her. Goldy is married to police investigator Tom in this outing, but in her earlier books, we get a nice build up of their relationship, starting with how they met in her first book, Catering to Nobody. I suggest you start with #1 Catering to Nobody and work your way up to this one and beyond. You'll be glad you did. Delicious!
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Cookie Mystery
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-07-21
I love this series of Goldie mysteries...a good combination of great receipes and a good mystery in each
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Murder Mystery
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-05-12
Love these books. Have read them all to date. Arrived as promised.
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