Product Description

Thanks to her recent adventures in Dying for Chocolate, Goldy Bear, the premier caterer of Aspen Meadow, Colorado, is no stranger to violence--or sudden death.  But when she agrees to cater the first College Advisory Dinner for Seniors and Parents at the exclusive Elk Park Preparatory School, the last thing she expects to find at the end of the evening is the battered body of the school valedictorian.

Who could have killed Keith Andrews, and why?  Goldy's hungry for some answers--and not just because she found the corpse.  Her young son, Arch, a student at Elk Park Prep, has become a target for some not-so-funny pranks, while her eighteen-year-old live-in helper, Julian, has become a prime suspect in the Andrews boy's murder.

As her investigation intensifies, Goldy's anxiety level rises faster than homemade doughnuts. . .as she turns up evidence that suggests that Keith knew more than enough to blow the lid off some very unscholarly secrets.  And then, as her search rattles one skeleton too many, Goldy learns a crucial fact: a little knowledge about a killer can be a deadly thing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58347 in Books
• Published on: 1994-08-01
• Released on: 1994-08-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.00" w x 4.10" l, .40 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 368 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Caterer Goldy Bear must solve the murder of a high school valedictorian in this delicious mystery.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Another food-oriented sleuth, divorced but armed with one child, works out of a small town in Colorado. The owner of Goldilocks' Catering happens upon a freshly murdered body after she serves a college advisory dinner for students at a locally famous prep school. Goldy's job and connections (including a detective boyfriend) allow her access to likely clue-holding people and places as she alternately placates and vituperates her way through the situation. This work has a humorous and charming protagonist, several slightly intrusive recipes, and a winning combination of character, plot, and setting.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
YA-An expensive prep school's SAT scores have dropped, parents are bribing college admissions representatives, and the class valedictorian is murdered in a snow bank. Denver caterer Goldy Bear, who has a 7th-grade son and a senior live-in student enrolled in Elk Park Prep School, keeps finding bodies at the school events she caters. To complete her worries, someone is playing dangerous pranks on her family. This light mystery is the perfect booktalking choice for home economics classes, especially when paired with other titles in which recipes play a major role, such as Virginia Rich's The Baked Bean Supper Murders (Ballantine, 1984). Not only will teens relate to the anxieties felt by all of the Elk Park seniors, but they may even emulate Goldy's live-in student's great cheese manicotti recipe.
Pam Spencer, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.