For Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, business isn’t just
booming--it’s skyrocketing. But as her friend Marla is
constantly warning her, “Success can kill you.” Goldy
knows she needs to slow down before she breaks down, and
she vows she’ll do it--right after her next booking: a
cocktail party for the Westside Mall’s Elite Shoppers Club.
It’s the event of the shopping season: the Princess
Without a Pricetag party for the wealthy shopaholics who
drop at least a thousand dollars a week at the mall. Goldy
has been hired by charming mall manager Barry Dean to
cater the jewel-encrusted affair. But she has hardly begun
setting up when she finds herself in the path of a truck
that has no intention of stopping until both she and Barry
are crushed beneath it. Muddied, bruised, embarrassed, but
determined to do her job, Goldy manages to get the party
started on time with the help of her trusted assistants
Julian Teller and Liz Fury.
But with the outbreak of an ugly marital spat among the
guests, the behavior of Barry’s flighty young girlfriend,
and Barry’s own strange actions after the truck incident,
the event is--by Goldy’s standards--a catastrophe. And
it’s about to get worse. When she goes to pick up her
check, she finds an old friend lying dead in a pile of
sale shoes--stabbed with one of Goldy’snew knives. Hours
later, Julian is the prime suspect in the murder.To prove
Julian’s innocence, Goldy must catch the real killer. But
to do that, she will have to figure out why the victim was
carrying a powerful narcotic. And why was a private
investigator called in shortly before the murder? Was the
killer connected to a mall renovation project--or the
eviction of a disgruntled tenant? Or was the villain the
odd lover out in a violent love triangle?
Between whipping up Sweethearts’ Swedish Meatballs, Quiche
Me Quick, and Diamond Lovers’ Hot Crab Dip, and digging up
clues, Goldy knows this is going to be one tough case to
crack. And her gourmet sleuth’s instinct tells her that
the final course will be a real killer.
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