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Prime Cut (2000)

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0553574671 (ISBN13: 9780553574678)
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2/3/15 - 100% sure I've read this before, but I think it's been 12+ years since I read this series, so I thought I'd re-read at least this one before picking up the next book in the series to try to get myself familiar again with the characters.2/15/15 - It was kinda hard to try to start this series again where I left off. I knew I had read this book before and some of the details were familiar and I guessed/remembered some of the whys of the murder but not the who. Some of the carry-over details from previous books were sketchy, so I had to try hard to remember things I'd forgotten and read between the lines on some of the details to put together some of the information but still feel like I'm missing a lot on the main characters. However, it was still an enjoyable story and my favorite part was Andre and the things that are revealed about him at the end of the book. I enjoy culinary mysteries and seeing how the author will weave the recipes into the story, but then I'm disappointed when so many of the dishes talked about do not have corresponding recipes!! I really wanted the recipe for the cherry cobbler mentioned extensively and described in such detail as to make my mouth water, and it is nowhere in the book! A big pet peeve of mine with authors of culinary mysteries -- if you mention the recipe, please include it!!

Well this book finally did it; I am officially done with Goldy. Three hundred and forty eight pages have never been so monotonous and redundant before. Her last couples of books were leading up to this moment and left me teetering but Prime Cut pushed me over the edge.Yada yada yada Goldy’s business is in trouble due to a new rival that will do anything to undercut her. Yada yada the contractor that Goldy hired for her kitchen remodel, that has taken advantage of every other person that he has worked for, seems to have skipped town but then his body is found hanging. The sudden death of Goldy’s mentor, and fellow chef, and a break in at a museum with only cookbooks missing that hold a clue to an old legend could not hold this book together for me. This book was so long-winded and awful that I am sure that my brain skipped a bit and to be quite honest I do not know why I bothered to finish.

What do You think about Prime Cut (2000)?

I Love this series, I haven't been disappointed by this series at all!!!!! All the the characters are absoulutety awesome!!!!! Arch is kind of a little snot though. I hope his character gets better. I was really shocked at who the killer was!!!! Anther thing that has me a little concerned is this new cater in town. I really don't like his style at all. I also like how "The Jerk" was in jail, too bad he still was able to bring discontent to Goldie and Marla though. I can't wait to read the next one!!!
—Christina

A pretty good mystery bu Davidson. Goldy, a caterer, discovers the dead body of the man doing remodeling at her home. This leads her into another investigation. Her husband, Tom, a detective is suspended because he and his boss don't get along. Then Goldy's former teacher dies and is it from a heart attack? Goldy does not think so. Goldy is out to find out what happened. With Tom suspended with out pay, and Goldy is losing come of her catering deals due to a new caterer coming to town and trying to get her business. What is behind his motivation? Twists and turns and some humor in the story. Enjoyable book and mystery for those that don't like things to get too scary or gory.
—Laura Beasley

Book eight in the Goldy Culinary Mysteries.As a result of a visit from "the jerk" in the last book, Goldy hires a contractor to repair her kitchen window. Unfortunately, the contractor in question, Gerald Eliot, takes her money, tears the kitchen apart...and disappears. A rival caterer emerges and seems determined to put Goldy out of business by stealing all of her clients, and Tom gets suspended after a run-in with his extremely obnoxious boss. Badly in need of work, Goldy helps out Chef Andre, her former teacher, as he caters a fashion shoot for a Christmas catalogue. On her way home after the first day of the fashion shoot, Goldy stops to drop off some food for her friend Cameron. While looking for his coffee pot, she makes a grisly discovery--the body of Gerald Eliot, who had also taken money from Cameron for work that was never completed. With Cameron in jail for a murder she is sure he did not commit and Tom suspended from work, Goldy plays detective again in order to bring the real killer to justice (and to figure out what's up with the cookbooks stolen from the local museum). The bodies and the delicious recipes just keep piling up...
—Debbie

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