Reviews for Murder by cheesecake : a Golden Girls cozy mystery
Publishers Weekly
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Literary agent Courage (Nothing Bad Happens Here) kicks off a new series with this breezy whodunit featuring characters from The Golden Girls. When Rose Nylund’s niece decides to hold her wedding in Miami, the eager to please Midwesterner’s Norwegian American family descends on Florida, spiking Rose’s anxiety. Rose and her friends soon find they have bigger herring to fry, however, when hard-nosed Dorothy Zbornak is arrested at the bridal shower after a man she met through a VHS dating service is found dead with his face down in a cheesecake. Horrified, Rose enlists Southern belle Blanche and Dorothy’s mother, Sophia, to help clear Dorothy’s name, while trying to keep the wedding plans more or less on track. Courage splendidly captures the voices and mannerisms of her much-loved characters, and wisely resists the impulse to modernize the show’s 1980s Miami setting. For Golden Girls fans, this is a nostalgic delight. Agent: Andrea Somberg, Harvey Klinger Agency. (Apr.)
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The Golden Girls—Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia—live again in this sparkling cozy. Rose is in a dither planning her young cousin Nettie’s wedding, having to incorporate the myriad required St. Olaf traditions into the event under the watchful, sometimes disapproving eye of her cousin Gustave, St. Olaf’s mayor. That Nettie’s prospective, wealthy in-laws, owners of a swanky Miami hotel, have their own contrasting ideas about the ceremony adds to her stress. When Dorothy’s VHS-dating-service date, who ditches her during the date, winds up dead in the freezer of the hotel, face down in cheesecake, Dorothy quickly becomes the chief suspect in the murder. To clear Dorothy, the four band together to find a killer, almost losing their lives in the process. A herring shortage and finding a clown for the bachelorette party and a donkey for the processional complicate matters. Humor, plot twists, convincing portrayals of the Golden Girls, and the Miami setting add up to a satisfying cozy that will be relished by Golden Girls fans.
