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Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz has a long-standing job catering breakfast to the law firm Hanrahan & Jule. One of the people working at the firm as a paralegal is her neighbor, Dusty Routt. Goldy has seen Dusty grow up through a lot of family problems. Her mother had to bring up her children alone with little money to support them. Her grandfather had been in prison and he volunteered to be a subject for a cosmetic company and was subsequently blinded by one of their products with no compensation. Now Dusty's mother takes care of him too. And a few years before, Dusty's brother had been beaten during an arrest. He died in custody and no one did anything to help. Goldy has been giving Dusty cooking lessons before the breakfasts some days and Goldy has found that she likes and admires the girl more and more as she works hard to get ahead. Dusty's uncle owns the law firm and Goldy sees that Dusty really wants to do her best. But that morning, Goldy walks into the law offices and nearly falls over Dusty's prone body lying in a pool of blood. The police tell Goldy to go home and she does, trying to keep calm. But Goldy finds that she can't stop thinking about Dusty and feeling totally devastated by what happened. Because she had been friends with the family she visits to try and consol them. Dusty's mother is bitter and angry. Since her son had been killed in police custody and no one did anything to protest or help them, she doesn't think the men in power are going to even try to find out who killed her daughter and is certain that no one will care if justice is done. She asks Goldy, because she has worked on crimes before, to please find out who killed Dusty. Though Goldy isn't sure she is capable of doing a good job because she is so affected, she finally agrees. So, as usual, Goldy asks her cop husband for some help and she uses her very willing staff to look into the murder. Luckily, she's still catering meals for the law firm and so has the means to be able to question people and to overhear conversations that are going on in the office. DARK TORT of the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries by Diane Mott Davidson is a little bit darker than most of the others in this series. Goldy seems to have really been thrown by discovering her murdered friend and a lot of time is spent with Goldy being depressed and having flashbacks about what she saw. I'm not certain that this helped the book as even I, a longtime fan, got a bit bored by her constant sufferings. But, don't worry, Goldy does a great job of getting to the truth of the crime. As usual, don't miss the scrumptious recipes that are written out at the end of the book! This is the 13th book in this series and, though the reader might be a little confused about all the characters, enough easy background is given about all of them. This installment will still entertain any lover of a superior cozy, even a first time reader.
Reviewed by A. L. Katz, August 2007
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