Sticks & Scones

Media:	Paperback
Author:	Diane Mott Davidson
Publisher:	Bantam
Release date:	28 May, 2002
Our price:	$6.99

Sticks & Scones

Average rating: Stars

Castle catering complications

Goldy Schultz is pleased to have two large catering jobs in a nearby castle, one for donors and one for her son's fencing team. Things soon become violent when a window is shot out in Goldy's home, a man her policeman husband Tom is pursuing is killed, and then Tom himself becomes a target. This is a complicated case with stolen stamps, hidden family secrets, and a man obsessed with restoring the castle at the center. Further complications arise when Goldy's abusive ex-husband, otherwise known as "The Jerk", is released from prison, and Goldy has reason to suspect that Tom is being unfaithful to her. All of the favorite characters are here, such as Arch and Julian, and a few new ones are added. This is another good entry in this consistent series.

Sticks & Scones - Diane Mott Davidson

A FUN READ - With Reservations

This was my first read from this author. I enjoyed the books but with some reservations. Some improbably plot twists made it sort of hard to swallow at times and the heroine, Goldie, is sort of over the top victom wise. The story twists from place to place, sequence to sequence, and if you do not pay attention, you can be lost rather quickly. All that being said, I do feel it is a fun read, if not examined too closely. I did enjoy the "food stuff" and the recipe attachment. I will probably read more of this series..hate not giving any author a chance. Anyway, this was a good way to kill a couple of evenings and is certainly better that most of what is on TV these days. All in all recommend.

Diane Mott Davidson - Sticks & Scones

quick-paced fun

Diane Mott Davidson's characters in "Sticks and Scones" may be more eccentric than usual, but the recipes are great, especially the scones recipe, and if you try them you'll be hooked on her books. In this one, she combats not only living people with questionable motives, but also what may be the ghost of her husband Tom's first love, a nurse whom he thought had been killed in Viet Nam.

Davidson is stretching it a little in her depiction of Tom's high school love---how unusual is it for a high schooler to be several years younger than his true love ? We all know girls mature much faster than boys!

That small objection aside, this book is full of fun, typical of all Davidson's works. Recommended.

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