Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson

Sweet Revenge comes along with our favorite characters, Goldy, Tom, Julian, Arch, Marla and the return of Sandee from a previous book. Actually nothing much changes from book to book except new recipes, new victims, new crime venues and so you say, why do you keep reading this series?

Well, I like the way Goldy operates. She is presented as an ordinary person, dealing with the intricacies of raising a son, operating her own catering business, maintaining friendships, being the wife of a member of the community's police force and solving the occasional murder. I also love the recipes.

In fact, I love the recipes so much that I've actually made several of them. One of my favorites was from an earlier book. It was a pear/brie pizza made with caramelized onion on a store-bought crust. It went over REALLY well at a party I attended.

If you like reading cookbooks and suspense novels, try this one. You may even want to go back and read the previous 12 books.

Ladybookbug!