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Dark Tort

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The New York Times bestselling author of Double Shot cooks up a knockout treat featuring irrepressible caterer Goldy Schulz that gives new meaning to the phrase, “let’s kill all the lawyers”

I tripped over the body of Dusty Routt sometime after 10 on the evening of October 19th.

Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference room snacks for a local law firm. It’s time consuming, but Goldy is enjoying it—until the night she arrives to find the firm’s paralegal dead. The poor girl also happens to be Goldy’s next-door neighbor, and now her grieving mother begs Goldy to find out who murdered her daughter.

Just because the police are on the case doesn’t mean Goldy can’t do a little snooping—and catering—too. Before long, Goldy is knee-deep in suspects, one of whom is very dangerous and very liable to cook Goldy’s goose.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateOct 13, 2009
ISBN9780061807565
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Diane Mott Davidson

Diane Mott Davidson is the author of seventeen bestselling novels. She divides her time between Colorado and Florida.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    For someone who isn't a homicide detective, Goldy sure has a lot of contact with murders! This latest involves lawyers (automatic bad guys, right?), infidelity, theft, and jealousy. Goldie manages to put all the pieces together, but not before her own brush with death.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A friend and neighbour of Goldy's is the victim in this latest mystery. Lawyers, art, and tasty food are all part of the backdrop of Goldy's latest snooping adventure.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It's been a few years since I last read a Goldy mystery. I thought maybe I'd grown so critical in my reading that I'd not like these books -- that I'd find them super cheesy and ridiculous (possibly why I'd stopped picking them up), but this one is a pleasant surprise. It's escape literature, for certain, but decent in that category. At least for this book, any time Davidson gets close to sappy or silly, she quickly backs away and moves the story forward. I appreciate that. This type of book is good for listening while I drive.

    I was a bit exasperated that all the "action" in the book (that is, all the info Goldy was collecting in her investigation) came in the form of talking to people and hearing their stories -- a type of passive writing as opposed to active. However, perhaps this is just more realistic as far as murder investigating goes. The lady does come across a lot of murdered people in her otherwise friendly small town. How much action could she expect? So I forgive the book for that disappointment.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another very intriguing read in these series. A great mystery/thriller as usual. The series has yet to disappoint me.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I liked this Goldy Bear Book better than the last 2. Goldy seems more in control of her life and her relationship with Arch seemed more belivable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was one of Diane's better efforts. It felt as if she had been sleepwalking while writing her last couple of novels. Yet this one showed a renewed verve and excitement, right down to the end.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This is the last Diane Mott Davidson book I read. I really cannot stand the main character, Goldy. She is very unrealistic, all over the map in her personality, and if I were Arch, I would be glum and withdrawn too. Goldy managed to make all of the evidence inadmissible in court in this book, and why her husband, a supposedly fine detective doesn't tell her this, I don't know. Even the cooking is frenetic. O.K., it's possible I'm being just a bit harsh, I do like Tom and reading about the recipes, but that's not enough to make me read any more of these books, the mysteries suck.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Goldie is teaching Rusty Rourt, an energetic young woman, aspiring para-legal, to cook. The evening they are to meet, Goldie finds her dead in the law office where she works. Goldie continues her life and catering as she works to solve the problem of Rusty's death. In addition, she is trying to figure out how her friend, Charlie Baker's famous culinary paintings are not quite right as she attempts to bake his recipe for Journey Cake from one of his later paintings. The other cast of characters are woven into the plot...Arch now learning to drive, and of course Gus comes often to visit and Julian just happens to come to help out. Fun.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    not bad, kept me interested. and there are recipes after the last chapter
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    goldie trips over young friends body in client/law firm. Plot and mystery doesn't really develop. much print is expended repeating info we already have and discussing the psychological issues of characters. the food prep is fun for cooks and really makes one want to go cook something. But mystery lovers want clues.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    One of the ones I’d missed was Dark Tort (about lawyers, and also cake – puns are de rigeur in cozies’ titles), which is what I’m reading now… NOT one of the better ones. I think in the whole of FF DMD managed to avoid one little quirk of hers which appears in nearly every other book, which always makes me roll my eyes so hard I’m afraid they’ll get stuck. In Dark Tort (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 13), it’s: “My mouth watered as I placed the potato puff on a plate. With the first bite, I almost swooned.” She “almost swoons” a lot. Don’t get me wrong – I plan on making the potato puffs. I just gag a little every time she “almost swoons”. Reading about writing has made me much more aware of how characters are described. DMD’s Goldy books are also first-person, and Goldy … looks in mirrors now and then. Oh dear. The writing in these really does vary wildly in quality. This one … Um. Waitaminnit – there’s no recipe for the potato puffs? This one sucks.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Goldy is going in to help a young friend learn to bake, they meet weekly at the law office the young woman is working at as a paralegal. When Goldy stumbles and falls coming into the office, she is hurt and has thrown food all over the place. Turning to look at what caused her to fall, she finds her friend, Dusty. Dusty is unresponsive and after performing CPR for quite some time, Goldy gives up, calls the police and starts a chain of events that lead to theft, murder, infidelity and puts Goldy at risk.As usual there are some delectable foods woven through the story, Goldy is catering, trying to find out who killed Dusty, keeping track of Arch and Gus, and generally having a very busy, very confused and very dangerous week.I do love this series and am enjoying spending some time catching up on it, still several books behind so have more Goldy left to read.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Almost didn't buy this because her last book sucked so much. This one wasn't nearly as bad, but still wasn't that good. The main problems with this one is that Goldy has no plausible reason to be involved with the investigation, that she goes about it in such a haphazard way, and she leaves the vital clue lying around for a week, only to discover it just as the killer comes to polish her off. Then there's the fact that she and her husband Tom have multiple conversations where they tell each other things they should already know, and the strained dialog (like when Goldy asks a young woman if the murdered girl had had any "romantic liaisons"). I really enjoyed this series more when Goldy had real obstacles to overcome and her involvement with the murders was more immediate and personal.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A good cozy mystery. Lots of talk about food with recipes at the end.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I listened to the audiobook version of this title. I think they changed readers for the audiobooks because it sounded like a different person than the last book in the series that I listened to as an audiobook. The narrator's raspy voice didn't do the audio version as much justice as the former narrator's did. I kept thinking I'd get used to it, but I never did. I did catch the double meaning of tort/torte long before it came up in the book. It's a dessert and a legal term so it does double duty in this case since the murder takes place at a law firm where Goldy's been catering breakfasts and lunches--something that apparently started in between the events of the last book and this one as best I can tell.Goldy's son Arch is learning to drive. Yet Goldy's the one who ends up taking the door off Julian's range rover then leaving trash bags in it for a week or so. Poor Julian!! Also, at the party, it sounded like she asked Julian to take additional trash bags out of the trash bins but when she goes to the repair shop to get the bags after the mechanic demands she come get them, it sounds like only one bag. So which is it? Especially since that trash is what tips off the murderer. Would most people miss one bag of trash from their trash bin? I don't know--maybe.