Tough Cookie is the 9th book in the Goldy Schulz series by New York Times bestselling author Diane Mott Davidson.
This novel was released on February 29, 2000.
Tough Cookie book description
When Goldy Schulz is offered a temporary stint hosting a cooking show for PBS, she jumps at the chance. After all, she could use the money – not to mention the great exposure.
Her catering business is in shambles, and publicizing her new venture as a personal chef will help get her back on track. Plus taping the shows at Colorado’s posh Killdeer Ski Resort will be fun. A little cooking, a little chitchat. What could go wrong?
The question Goldy should have asked is, what wouldn’t go wrong – especially when she has to drive through a blizzard to do one of her shows live for a PBS telethon.
To make matters worse, Goldy has an unpleasant duty to perform right after the show. She and her policeman husband, Tom, have agreed to sell a piece of Tom’s treasured war memorabilia to help ease their financial woes. The buyer: Doug Portman, art critic, law enforcement wannabe – and, to her eternal embarrassment, Goldy’s ex-boyfriend.
Predictably, the live broadcast is riddled with culinary catastrophes – from the Chesapeake Crabcakes right down to the Ice-Capped Ginger Snaps.
But the deadliest dish of all comes after the cameras go off, when an unexplainable skiing accident claims Doug Portman’s life – and Goldy is the one who finds his crumpled body on the slopes. Even more shocking is what police find tucked away in Doug’s BMW: a greeting card with a potentially deadly chemical inside.
As the police try to determine if Doug’s accident was really foul play, Goldy does a little investigating of her own – but finds more questions than answers.
Was Doug, chairman of the state Parole Board, accepting bribes from potential parolees? Was he connected to the ex-con who’s been telling Killdeer skiers that he’s planning to poison a cop? And how did Goldy and Tom get mixed up in this mess?
When a series of suspicious mishaps places Goldy’s own life in jeopardy, she knows she must whip up her own crime-solving recipe, and fast – before a hearty dose of intrigue and a deadly dash of danger ends her cooking career once and for all….
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