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Bibliography:  Keegan, Nicola.  (July, 2009).  Swimming.  New York:  Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.  ISBN:  9780307269973 Philomena “Pip” was swimming almost from the moment she was born.  Restless and unsleeping, her parents took her to her first swimming lessons before she was a year old.  From that moment on, Pip knew she was born to swim.  No [...]

Bibliography:  Davidson, Diane Mott.  (2007).  Sweet Revenge.  New York: HarperCollins.  ISBN: 9780060527334 Plot Summary:  Intrepid espresso gulping caterer Goldy Schulz is back, surrounded by her usual jovial entourage.  The busiest season of the year for caterers, the winter holidays are about to begin.  Cookies are baked and iced, parties and luncheons planned.  Goldy agrees to [...]

Bibliography:  Quinn, Spencer. (2009).  Dog on It.  New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN: 9781416585831 Plot Summary:  Together P.I.s Bernie and Chet run the Little Detective Agency.  And they are good at their jobs, especially missing persons cases.  No matter that Chet is a mutt who couldn’t pass K-9 school, and Bernie’s got some issues of [...]

Bibliography: Dean, Zoey. 2007. How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls. New York: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN: 9780446697187 Plot Summary: Megan Smith, Yale graduate, wants to be an important writer, writing about things that matter.  But she finds herself low man on the totem pole at a celebrity tabloid magazine.  When her apartment catches fire and [...]

In 1990, Diane Mott Davidson published the first mystery in the Goldy the Caterer series (Catering to Nobody) and the culinary mystery was born. There was something about the combination of solving murder and cooking great food that really hooked readers. Perhaps it is the contrast between horrible violent death and the celebration of life [...]

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