In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.

Goldy agrees to cater a low-fat luncheon for Mignon Cosmetics, but when she witnesses the death of a Mignon sales associate, she is drawn into the investigation and must fight for her own life.

When Goldy gets a cushy job as a caterer at a posh club, she thinks her life is finally starting to look up, but then the local shrink that she has been seeing drives his car into a bus, and Goldy finds herself involved in a mystery that could get her and her son killed.

"Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg, a character inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad. Thea's early life, however, has much in common with Cather's own. Set from 1885 to 1909, the novel traces Thea's long journey from her fictional hometown of Moonstone, Colorado, to her source of inspiration in the Southwest, and to New York and the...

Catering the wake of her son's favorite teacher is not Goldy's idea of fun. Particularly when her former father-in-law passes out, nearly felled by rat poison!When her catering business is shut down because her former father-in-law is nearly felled by rat poison, Goldy Bear sets out to find the culprit who planted the poison.

A Colorado police chief seeks the assistance of Charlie Moon to solve a string of murders.

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...

Soon after the governor of Colorado commutes the sentence of her ex-husband, Dr. John Richard Korman, Goldy Schulz begins receiving death threats; but when she becomes the prime suspect in a brutal murder, she sets out to find the real killer before she becomes the next victim.

"Aurora De La Torre ... knows moving back to Pagosa Springs, Colorado--a place that was once home and is now full of bittersweet memories of her late mother--isn't going to be easy. ... But after breaking up with her longtime, famous musician boyfriend, hiding out in a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. And checking out her landlord who lives across the driveway just might cure it, too. Only Tobias Rhodes didn't...

"It all begins with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives at the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the town within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, he is irresistible." "Seems like bliss ... but is it? Or is all hell about to break loose in Paradise?"--