For Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, accepting a series of
bookings at Hyde Castle is like a dream come true. It’s
not every day that she gets to cook authentic Elizabethan
fare—especially at a real castle that was brought over
from England and reassembled stone by stone in Aspen
Meadow. Goldy is determined that everything will go right—
which is why, she figures later, everything went terribly
wrong. It begins when a shotgun blast shatters her window.
Then Goldy discovers a body lying in a nearby creek. And
when shots ring out for the second time that day, someone
Goldy loves is in the line of fire. Suddenly the last
thing Goldy wants to think about is Shakespeare’s Steak
Pie, 911 Chocolate Emergency Cookies, or Damson-in-
Distress Plum Tart. Could one of her husband Tom’s police
investigations have triggered a murder? Or was her
violent, recently paroled ex responsible? With death
peering around every corner, Goldy needs to cook up some
crime-solving solutions—before the only dish that’s left
on her menu is murder.