Name: Catering to Nobody
ISBN: 9780553584707

Diane Mott Davidson

Catering a wake for her son's teacher leads Goldy Bear into the detective business when rat poison turns up in her food and the police, except for investigator Tom Schulz, begin to treat her like a suspect.

Catering to Nobody

Sarah Sammis

After listening to my friend's audio copy of Fatally Flaky I decided to give the rest of the series a listen.Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson started the Goldy Bear Culinary series in 1990.

The book opens with Goldy catering the wake for Arch's teacher. While Goldy just wants to get through the wake and help Arch grieve, she can't because someone puts rat poison in her ex-father-in-law's drink!

As this is the first book, a lot of the character dynamics from later books aren't there. Instead of Julian, for instance, there's a ditzy roommate who while funny in her own right, doesn't play off Goldy and Arch in quite the same way. Finally, Tom Schulz who plays a much larger and more sympathetic roll later on is more of a foil here.

Although I figured out most of the who-done-it well before Goldy does, I still enjoyed listening to the book. It was interesting to see the characters so far removed from where they were in the first book I'd read.

Annalissa Powner 

Great impulse buy! I wasn't so sure how I felt about goldy at first but by the end I loved her fire and the characters started to have some great substance. I'm excited to read more in this series(: