Sticks and Scones

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Murder is on the menu—British style—as caterer Goldy Schulz tackles scones and ghosts and a psycho or two, in preparing an Elizabethan banquet for an eccentric millionaire in his castle in the Colorado mountains. And this time, it's no tempest in a teapot for Goldy—this cooking assignment is a killer!©2001 by Diane Mott Davidson; (P)2001 Random House, Inc. Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Random House, Inc.

GREAT AS ALWAYS

GO GOLDY, LOVE THE STORY LINES AND ONGOING CHARACTERS.

New Jersey accent?

The story is okay. But Colorado people don't tend to have New Jersey accents.

Entertaining but not one of her best

We love the mix of mystery and culinary art in DMD's books and therefore expected a bit more than the thin and rather convoluted tale that she spun in this book. You get the sense that the publisher said, "Diane, it's about time for another...now." and she produced "another". We actually have heard the other stories that follow this most of which are much better told and give the characters a little more color and the action a lot more meaning. Still, all in all, if you're a DMD fan, you'll forgive Goldie for an occasional half-baked scone because she has presented so many other much more elaborate and tasty novels since then.