Diane Mott Davidson Books in Order

Part cookbook and part memoir, this collection gathers more than 160 recipes from the Goldy Schulz mysteries along with new dishes and stories about Davidson’s writing, family, and cooking life. It’s a behind‑the‑scenes tour of how the fictional menus grew out of real kitchens.

Goldy and her son Arch are cohosting a Mexican‑themed birthday party when Holly, a fellow member of their support group for doctors’ ex-wives, collapses and dies in the driveway. Attacks, break‑ins, and another death suggest Holly’s carefully curated life hid dangerous financial and emotional secrets that someone is desperate to keep buried.

After a fire and a murder force chef Yolanda Garcia and her formidable great-aunt Ferdinanda out of their home, Goldy takes them in—and quickly realizes their troubles are tied to a slain private investigator’s messy caseload. From stolen Cuban jewels to a brutal puppy mill, she must untangle overlapping crimes before the danger reaches her own kitchen.

Goldy is drowning in weddings, especially one for a demanding bride who keeps changing menus and venues. When a beloved local doctor dies in a car crash on his way to the ceremony and Goldy’s godfather is attacked, she goes undercover at a luxury spa to find out who’s willing to kill to protect its secrets.

As Christmas approaches in Aspen Meadow, Goldy is catering a library breakfast when the disgraced former district attorney is found dead among the stacks. His obsession with rare maps and a vanished antique chart sends her into a world of collectors, ex-lovers, and old cases where revenge may be long delayed.

Arriving before dawn to deliver breakfast to a law firm, Goldy literally trips over the body of a young paralegal with a troubled past and a suddenly bright future. Drawn in by the woman’s grieving mother, she uncovers questionable deaths, disputed art, and dangerous secrets hiding behind polished legal offices.

Goldy’s ex-husband, Dr. John Richard Korman—the Jerk—has just had his prison sentence commuted, and someone immediately starts sabotaging her new catering shop. When Korman is found shot to death and Goldy’s own gun looks like the weapon, she has to investigate a maze of grudges, gossip, and church politics to keep herself out of jail.

Business is booming when Goldy caters an exclusive shopping‑club party at the local mall—until a truck nearly runs her down and she later finds an old friend stabbed among the sale shoes, one of her own knives in the body. As suspicion falls on those closest to the victim, she must carve through mall politics, drugs, and jealousy to catch a killer.

Goldy lands a dream job catering Elizabethan‑style feasts at Hyde Castle, an imported English manor above Aspen Meadow. After a sniper’s bullet shatters her window, she, Tom, and Arch move into the castle, where a body in a nearby creek, a family feud, and her newly freed ex-husband turn the assignment into a siege.

A broken drain line shuts down Goldy’s kitchen, so she agrees to host a PBS cooking show at a posh ski resort. Live television brings slapstick disasters, but the real crisis comes when an old boyfriend dies on the slopes and a series of “accidents” suggests someone is using the mountain for murder.

With her kitchen wrecked by a crooked contractor and a rival caterer stealing clients, Goldy takes a gig assisting her mentor at a fashion shoot in a remote cabin. When the contractor later turns up dead and rare cookbooks go missing, she must connect sabotage, theft, and murder before her business is ruined.

Goldy is hired to cater a hockey party for a woman planning to sue Goldy’s abusive ex-husband and his HMO for malpractice. When his new girlfriend is found murdered and he’s arrested, her son begs Goldy to prove his father innocent, forcing her to revisit old trauma while chasing a new killer.

A lucrative catering job for a high‑flying investment firm draws Goldy into the reopening of an old gold mine—and into trouble when a key partner disappears along with company money. As more violence hits, she scrambles through mountain storms, missing millions, and bad investments to clear her best friend’s name.

Goldy is serving a low‑fat luncheon for a cosmetics launch at a crowded mall when animal‑rights protesters swarm the event and a company employee is killed by a hit‑and‑run driver. Torn between grief and suspicion, she probes the victim’s tangled love life and the ugly side of the beauty business.

On the morning of her wedding to detective Tom Schulz, Goldy gets a call: the ceremony is off because the priest has been shot. When Tom disappears from the crime scene, she puts the cake on ice and hunts a killer whose obsession could make her a widow before she’s a wife.

Hired to cater a college advisory dinner at her son Arch’s elite prep school, Goldy ends the night by finding the valedictorian beaten to death. As pranksters target Arch and her assistant Julian is eyed as a suspect, she uncovers ruthless academic rivalries and very unscholarly crimes.

Fleeing her abusive ex-husband, Goldy takes a live‑in cooking job at an upscale country club and tries to rebuild her catering business. When her new boyfriend, a psychologist, dies in a bizarre car crash after eating her brunch, she digs into his secrets and discovers a recipe for murder.

Cold Turkey is a food‑themed mystery short story, first published in the anthology Death Dines at 8:30, that helped earn Diane Mott Davidson the Anthony Award for best short story. It’s a tight, recipe‑laced tale that shows how even a shared meal can conceal deadly intentions.

Single mom and caterer Goldy Bear thinks she’s just feeding mourners at a schoolteacher’s wake—until her ex‑father‑in‑law is poisoned and she becomes the prime suspect. To save her business and protect her son, she has to uncover a small‑town tangle of grudges and lies.