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1) Plainsong
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Kent Haruf has received prestigious awards, including a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation for his finely-tuned works. Before the opening chapter of this novel, Haruf offers a definition. Plainsong is "any simple and unadorned melody or air." Direct yet elegant, Haruf's Plainsong is a hymn to the breadth of the human spirit. A high school history teacher in a small Colorado town, Guthrie is raising his two young sons alone. Thoughtful...
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Diane Mott Davidson, Queen of the Culinary Mystery, has once again constructed a clever recipe for murder and mystery. With The Last Suppers she continues to whet her readers' appetites both for good reading and good food. Caterer Goldy Bear's wedding day becomes a nightmare when her groom, homicide detective Tom Schulz, calls her from a murder scene and then vanishes. Her only clue to his disappearance is a cryptic note dropped at the scene of the...
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Diane Mott Davidson, author of the best-selling culinary mystery series, once again successfully melds a robust murder mystery with a collection of fine gourmet recipes. In Killer Pancake, amateur sleuth Goldy faces her toughest challenge yet. While catering a cosmetics company luncheon, Goldy witnesses the hit and run death of a rising young sales associate. Could the death have anything to do with the animal rights picket line in the parking lot,...
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Accidentally causing the death of a purse snatcher with ties to the mob, tribal investigator and Colorado rancher Charlie Moon and his friend, Chief of Police Scott Parris, are targeted by the thief's vengeful family in a case that is complicated by FBI meddling and a rookie private investigator.
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No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant...
12) Prime cut
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The critically acclaimed author of "The Grilling Season" and "The Main Corpse" once again whips up an irresistible menu for murder. When Goldy Schultz takes on the job of catering for a magazine's fashion shoot, she's soon knee-deep in beauties and beefcake, corpses and caskets--and on a ruthless killer's menu for murder.
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Mark Girard was a young boy during the boom period of Angel's Landing, a mining town near Banjo Creek. When the boom played out, Mark's father moved on, but his mother refused to leave. When the job as sheriff opened, Mark ran for the office and won. It was a relatively easy job until a new gold strike on Banjo Creek brought brawling lawbreakers back to town. Now the question is whether or not Mark can handle them.
18) Legend
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Her wedding fast approaching, celebrated chef Kady Long knew she was the luckiest woman alive...until she slipped into a delicate satin wedding dress she found in an antique flour tin and was overcome by an odd dizzy spell. When she came to, Kady was in the dusty western town of Legend, Colorado -- where a hanging was about to commence! With quick wits and more than a little moxie, Kady halts the proceedings, much to the relief of one Cole Jordan,...
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