Catalog Search Results
1) Double shot
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Goldy's just arrived at her new catering center to prepare for a special luncheon when she's attacked and knocked unconscious. When Goldy comes to, she suspects her abusive ex-husband Korman was somehow involved--until later that day when he's found dead!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's summer time and Aspen Meadow is abuzz with matrimony. Goldy's catering business is tasked with one wedding reception after another, and every customer is easily satisfied except for Billie Attenborough. This spoiled-rotten, temper trantrum-throwing bridezilla has demanded a menu change no less than six times. Then, two days before the wedding, murder most sour enters the mix and Goldy finds her own life threatened as she begins sleuthing and...
3) Dark tort
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference room snacks for a local law firm. It's time-consuming, but Goldy is enjoying it--until the night she arrives to find Dusty, the firm's paralegal, dead. The poor young woman also happens to be Goldy's friend and neighbor, and now Dusty's grieving mother begs Goldy to find out who murdered her daughter. Just because the police are on the case doesn't mean Goldy can't do a little...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The inimitable Faith Fairchild returns in a chilling New England whodunit, inspired by the best Agatha Christie mysteries and with hints of the timeless board game Clue. For most of her adult life, resourceful caterer Faith Fairchild has called the sleepy Massachusetts village of Aleford home. While the native New Yorker has come to know the region well, she isn't familiar with Havencrest, a privileged enclave, until the owner of Rowan House, a secluded...
Author
Series
Cupcake cafe novels volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Issy Randal is laid off from her desk job, she decides to open up her own little cafe. But she soon learns that her piece-of-cake plan will take all her courage and confectionary talent to avert disaster.
11) The last suppers
Author
Series
Goldy Bear mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caterer Goldy Bear's wedding day becomes a nightmare when her groom, homicide detective Tom Schulz, calls her from a murder scene and then vanishes.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this homage to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Faith Fairchild is asked to cater a very small, very private college reunion on an isolated New England island—an event that could be her dream job. But when she discovers the true reason for the get-together, not even the spectacular ocean views can keep it from turning into a nightmare. Thirty years ago, bestselling suspense writer Barbara Bailey Bishop lost her twin sister in
...13) The main corpse
Author
Series
Goldy Bear mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Goldy looks forward to whipping up a sumptuous dinner for two wealthy clients, but when one of the men disappears, and her best friend is accused of murder, Goldy must find out who has turned the feast into a fiasco.
Author
Series
Goldy Bear mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to take control of her life, Goldy Bear moves her catering business and her son to ritzy Aspen Meadows Country Club. Just as she's beginning to think she's got it made--catering decadent dinners and being wooed by both a handsome shrink and a rugged cop--the sightly doctor inexplicably drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. Godly is convinced the doctor's death was no accident.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an audit finds money missing from the minister's discretionary fund at Aleford's First Parish Church, suspicion falls on Faith's husband, the Rev. Thomas Fairchild, the only person with access to the account. To complicate matters, Ursula Rowe, Faith's friend Pix Miller's elderly and ailing mother, asks Faith's help in dealing with the disquieting letters she's recently received. Secrets, the kind that fester and can make even strong people ill,...
17) Musseled out
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The busy summer tourist season is winding down in Busman's Harbor, Maine, but Julia Snowden senses trouble simmering for the Snowden Family Clambake Company. Shifty David Thwing--the "Mussel King" of upscale seafood restaurants--is sniffing around town for a new location. But serving iffy clams turns out to be the least of his troubles...When Thwing is found sleeping with the fishes beneath a local lobsterman's boat, the police quickly finger Julia's...
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chef Carrie Ann Cole is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--an assignment as the new personal chef to the royal family at Kensington Palace. But no sooner has Carrie Ann touched down across the pond and donned her apron than a dead body crops up beneath the royal kale beds.
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request