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Diane Mott Davidson is the author of more than ten bestselling mysteries. She lives with her family in Colorado.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Sticks and Scones is a disappointment, April 11, 2001

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This review is from: Sticks & Scones (Hardcover)

As a longtime reader of Mott Davidson's, I found STICKS AND SCONES disappointingly disjointed and implausible....Loose ends, and too many leaps of logic. Besides which, juvenile son, Arch, gets more tediously obnoxious as the years go by with NO redeeming qualities, and ex-husband, John Richard, keeps up harassment that NO wife of a police officer would ever have to endure. I know this is fiction, but no heroine can be interesting being as much of a career victim as Goldy is.

Even the recipes in this book are disappointing.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Goldy goes Gothic, April 17, 2001

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This review is from: Sticks & Scones (Hardcover)

Goldy the caterer and her crew are back with more murder and tasty morsels. The action this time centers around an English castle which has been dismantled, moved, and re-assembled in the Colorado Rockies (think Jerry Jeff Walker: o/~ "even London Bridge is falling down and moved to Arizona" o/~ The characterizations here are much better than the disappointments of Goldy's most recent prior endeavors, but her whiney son and his adulation of his abusive father is really beginning to grate.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes and fun mystery......, October 15, 2001

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Diane Mott Davidson has done it again, another fun mystery involving Goldy, the caterer/sleuth along with murder and missing valuable stamps, not to mention an appearance by Goldy's husband's old girlfriend. The story begins with Goldy's picture window being shot out, a suspect in a police case turning up dead near a catering sight, and after that , the clues and suspects mount up faster than the calories in the recipes!! There are wonderful recipes for scones, shortbread cookies and the totally fantastic and irrestible chocolate emergency 911 cookies!!! Davidson's mysteries are fun and interesting, and while some may find them a bit of a stretch for their imagination, the story is very entertaining and enjoyable. You will not be dissapointed. The characters are interesting, and some of them are really out there, and that is what makes the story move! I have read all of this series of books, and while some are better than others, this one is one of the most fun!!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Unreadable
Bla bla bla bla, my window was shot out, I wonder who did it and why? Bla bla bla, oh! My client thinks my food is awesome! Read more

Published 9 months ago by J. Ford

4.0 out of 5 stars TOO MANY RAISINS
Diana Mott Davison can't write a bad book or recipe. That said, this one has many elements. details and sub-plots that are not really fleshed out. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Vicki H. Foster

4.0 out of 5 stars Many Red Herrings
I'd say this is the best mystery novel I've read by Diane Mott Davidson so far... I've only read three of her books in all and not in any chronological order. Read more

Published 13 months ago by L. A. Vitale

4.0 out of 5 stars Please do your literary homework!!
Actually, I liked the story, as improbable and silly as it was sometimes. I like this author's writing for what it is - escapist literature that doesn't require much thought, and... Read more

Published 23 months ago by Wilhelmina

3.0 out of 5 stars You've got to be Kidding
I forced myself to finish this book, thinking something great would happen. The entire setting, however, was hard to swallow. A rebuilt castle?? Read more

Published on January 12, 2010 by D. Meyers

3.0 out of 5 stars A Culinary Mystery, Recipes Included
Caterer Goldy Schulz has been hired to cook an authentic Elizabethan luncheon and dinner at a castle (shipped over from England in pieces). Read more

Published on July 11, 2008 by Debra Purdy Kong

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly unsolvable
This is the second Goldy mystery I read (completely out of order, I know) and it was pretty good, though there was that touch of the supernatural in it - not what I like in my... Read more

Published on April 22, 2008 by Smeddley

5.0 out of 5 stars Hectic times in Colorado
The tenth book of the Goldy Schultz mystery series starts with a bang and never really slows down. The bang is provided courtesy of some unknown assailant who shoots out a window... Read more

Published on December 29, 2007 by Naor Wallach

5.0 out of 5 stars Murder Mystery
Love these books, enjoyed each one, purchased and read all to date. Arrived promptly.

Published on May 12, 2007 by Evelyn L. Wilson

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm a new fan
This was my first book of Ms Davidson's books and I realy enjoyed it.

I've read a few mysteries with recipes and they had all fallen short, so this book was a pleasant... Read more

Published on April 24, 2007 by J. L. Cornish

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labyrinth lunch, medical helo, jam cabinet, stolen stamps, fencing practice, team moms, lime sorbet, murder holes

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Richard, Sara Beth, Andy Balachek, Great Hall, Viv Martini, Hyde Chapel, Eliot Hyde, Elk Park Prep, Buddy Lauderdale, Captain Lambert, Ray Wolff, The Stamp Fox, Hyde Castle, Cottonwood Creek, Furman County, Michaela Kirovsky, Wet Paint, Queen Victoria, Connie Oliver, Party Rental, Aspen Meadow, Atlantic City, Southwest Hospital, New Jersey, Howie Lauderdale

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