The Cereal Murders

By Diane Mott Davidson

Book Overview

Thanks to her recent adventures in Dying for Chocolate, Goldy Bear, the premier caterer of Aspen Meadow, Colorado, is no stranger to violence--or sudden death. But when she agrees to cater the first College Advisory Dinner for Seniors and Parents at the exclusive Elk Park Preparatory School, the last thing she expects to find at the end of the evening is the battered body of the school valedictorian. Who could have killed Keith Andrews, and why? Goldy's hungry for some answers--and not just because she found the corpse. Her young son, Arch, a student at Elk Park Prep, has become a target for some not-so-funny pranks, while her eighteen-year-old live-in helper, Julian, has become a prime suspect in the Andrews boy's murder. As her investigation intensifies, Goldy's anxiety level rises faster than homemade doughnuts. . .as she turns up evidence that suggests that Keith knew more than enough to blow the lid off some very unscholarly secrets. And then, as her search rattles one skeleton too many, Goldy learns a crucial fact: a little knowledge about a killer can be a deadly thing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553095153
• ISBN13: 9780553095159
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Elk Park Prep is crime scene

In this book, one of the best of the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries, Elk Park Prep becomes the site of a murder when the senior class valedictorian is found dead. Goldy finds herself investigating, and in the process learns about what lengths parents will go to, trying to get their offspring into elite colleges. As usual, the recipes Davidson inclues are wonderfully fun to make, and delicious to eat. Goldy, fueled by copious cups of heavily caffeinated coffee, unravels the mystery. Recommended as a marvelous diversion.

Smartness can get you killed!

Goldy finds herself in a war in Arch's school. The struggle between parents is over whose senior is the smartest, the most talented and the most well rounded. Many of Goldy's catering assignments in this book end in disaster! Goldy never knows what she is going to find this time around. Will it be a fight, will she be scolded or will there be a dead body?In "The Cereal Murders" Diane Mott Davidson serves up a hearty meal of murder, jealousy, petty thievery, angst and pranks (which end up getting a few people hurt)! You will be entertained with the activity of many twists and turns in this mystery. As always, Goldy herself is sassy and stubborn.There are treats involved. A side dish consists of some romance and a marriage proposal that is repeated again and again. How sweet!D. M. Davidson provides us with 11 very delicious looking recipes in this book. Enjoy!

Great Book - But Don't Read It While Your Hungry!

This is an excellent mystery. Diane Mott Davidson has done a great job of grabbing your attention and not letting it go. Goldy, a caterer in Colorado, seems to have the most trouble everytime she ends up catering an event. This time the story revolves around a plot related to the unreasonable attitude that some parents develop about getting their children into college.Everytime you think that you can put the book down for a break something else happens to poor Goldy. This is a great read! Just don't read it while your hungry!

A must read for any family involved in applying to college.

Having spent 10 years as a college admissions director, this book was an absolute hoot for me. While it is on the edge of a farce, it has plenty to say about the frenzy involved in the college application process these days.

<p>ANOTHER GREAT READ FROM THE QUEEN OF CULINARY MYSTERIES

With this book and the others in this series, Diane Mott Davidson shares her intelligence and sense of humor with the reader. "The Cereal Murders" romps through the world of private education with witty insight. As seniors at Elk Park Preparatory gear up for college admission, they and their parents need more than guidance counseling when a star student turns up murdered after an school event catered by Goldy Bear (owner of Goldilocks' Catering, Where Everything Is Just Right). Goldy and her sometimes-boyfriend, Homicide Detective Tom Schulz, become embroiled in the case, discovering many clues and a few red herrings along the way. The recipes alone are worth reading--be careful not to drool on the page! Check out Diane Mott Davidson's other books as well--all are equally delicious! For other, non-culinary, humorous mysteries, try any of Dorothy Cannell's offerings. She is another author with a tongue-in-cheek, sometimes irreverent style of writing.