Double Shot CD

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Summary: Ignores forensic science
Review: Goldie is accussed on shooting The Jerk based on GSR (Gun Shot Residue) on her hands. However, it had been over eight hours since she fired her gun and she had repeatedly washed her hands in strong solvents. That would have made the GSR virtually useless. Without the GSR results, there would have been no story.

After that snafu, everything falls apart in this book.

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Summary: ex bites the dust
Review: Goldy's back in DOUBLE SHOT by the mistress of meals, mayhem & murder, Diane Mott Davidson, & this time Goldy's ex gets his just desserts. At last!

Someone clobbers Goldy early one morning as she's heading in to work at her new place of business. Then she discovers they've trashed everything & the place reeks of spoiled food.

Goldy's on edge because the governor of Colorado has commuted the handsome, charming & venal Dr. John Richard Korman's sentence. The ex who won't go away. Now he decides to harass Goldy, while she's catering a job. Still, trying to keep the peace because of their son, Goldy is determined to deliver him to his father for their weekly game of golf. Except when they get to the Jerk's house in an expensive subdivision, she finds him in his garage, very dead. & it's her gun that did it.

Who was that guy who suddenly appeared at her van door demanding his money?
How did the Jerk, straight out of prison, pay for such a swank home?
Which of his previous girlfriends has some rather dark feelings about being jilted for a younger, prettier model?
What secret from the Jerk's past is coming back to haunt Goldy in the present?

Apart from over-spicing the story with too many & too cute name-calling, & the absence of any counseling for her son after the sudden & vicious demise of his father, Rebeccasreads recommends DOUBLE SHOT as a worthy addition to this crafty culinary gumshoe's hectic life.

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Summary: Double Shot
Review: Having read all of the Goldy Bear Catering mysteries I was starting to tire of carrying the baggage of The Jerk into each new story line. Finally! Can't tell you what happens of course but you will be pleased. The only downside was that it took the whole book to finally be rid of him.

There was also more "language" in this book than usual.

Tom, Arch, Julian & Marla are such rich personalities that story lines should be endless. Why not borrow from Charlie Chan and take a family cruise or a trip to New York or wherever? People do get murdered outside of Colorado. :>)

The recipes are once again outstanding. No disappointment there.

I'm not giving up on Goldy but I do hope the next book is better.



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Summary: One of Her Best
Review: I thought this was one of Davidson's best. Even though the JERK is gone, he still haunts Goldy throughout the story. This story has more complex character development in the main players such as Arch, Tom, and Goldy. There are many twists and turns that kept me from guessing the end. Davidson ended this story on a note that leaves me waiting eagerly for the next book in the series.

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Summary: new narrator
Review: I used to buy all these books on tape, and then the narrator was changed from her original choice. I couldn't stand the tape. It lost all personality. The original narrator was what made her tapes so interesting.

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Summary: Georgie reads!
Review: I was so fed up with Goldie's spoiled rotten brat of a son (Arch) for whom she was increasingly and slavishly bending over backwards to appease to no avail, that I had sworn off Diane Mott Davidson's Goldie the caterer series. That boy was like fingernails on the blackboard of my reading mind.

Fortunately, I was a huge fan of the TV show Sisters (Hey! Powers That Be! Please release that series on DVD!) and sister Georgie (Patricia Kalember,) is reading this book on CD so I gave Double Shot a shot.

Hallelujah and possibly due to all the negative reader feedback to Ms. Mott, Arch has reformed and actually noticed that he is not, as he previously believed, the center and focal point of the universe. The new improved Arch has empathy and compassion!

Ding Dong, Goldie's abusive ex-husband and Arch's daddy, Dr. John Richard Korman, is dead! And so are other residents and former residents of Aspen Meadow, Colorado (the Cabot Cove of this cozy catering caper series.) This installment is well plotted and paced with all the old gang and a tasty batch of newcomers from whom to select WhoDunnit. Kalember gives a fine reading. The drawback of the CD version is that the recipes for the delectable sounding edibles are not included :-( TundraVision, Amazon reviewer


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Summary: Very Good
Review: I was very happy with Double Shot and very happy to have John Richard Korman out of the picture. I must say however I wonder how Goldy gets catering gigs when it seems like someone always dies just before or after one of her events!!!

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Summary: glad I finished it
Review: Just like another reviewer, I had trouble with the 'Goldy as victim' plot that is the major theme for the beginning of this book. I almost stopped reading the book but decided to finish it. I am very glad that I did. The mystery is well done and not easily solvable. I really liked the layers that are added to each character - particularly Goldy and her past. If you have ever read any of the other books in the series and plan on reading more, this is a must read.

Kudos to the author for daring to change the basic 'script' of the series. I wish some of my other favorite mystery writers would follow her lead.

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Summary: Goldy is a winner again
Review: Thank goodness, this series is back on track! Like a lot of readers, I was disappointed in the last entry in the series, The Grilling Season. Because the characters age and change in each book, we've seen Goldy's son Arch grow up. Unfortunately, he wasn't particularly likable in the last book, as his teenage years took hold. But he comes around in this book and starts treating his mom better, so there seems to be hope for him. As an added bonus: John Richard Korman, 'the Jerk' to those who used to be married to him, is the murder victim this time, which means we won't have to watch his abusive behavior through the rest of the series. Putting all the recipes together in the back of the book is a good idea; they're easier to find there than scattered throughout. All in all, Diane Mott Davidson is one of the best mystery writers around, this series is a winner, and this is one of the best entries in the series.

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Summary: One of the better Goldy novels
Review: This is probably one of Ms. Davidson's better books in the Goldy series. The last one, Chopping Spree, didn't really hit any high marks for me. This one ranks up there with The Main Corpse as far as dead bodies go, with great suspense and plot twists. I wasn't sure I wanted to read this latest book after Chopping Spree, but one review from Amazon (without any plot giveaways, thank you) and I knew I had to read it.

In many ways, this book also resembles the first book (revised version), Catering to Nobody, but don't take that as a copycat. Without spoiling it, I can safely say that the Jerk resembles his father in more ways than one!

What can I say? I'm a Goldy addict.