Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz encounters bridezilla--and murder--when bridezilla's fiancé is killed because he was doing research at the Gold Gulch Spa,an allegation that's confirmed when the deceased's best friend (Goldy's godfather) is attacked.

A retired businesswoman solves a mystery involving a local bake-off with fatal results for a food judge.

Goldy Bear, recently divorced, has made a home for herself and her young son in scenic Aspen Valley, Colorado. There, calls for Goldilock's Catering have been steady enough to pay the bills. But when a mourner is felled by rat poison during a funeral buffet Goldy is serving, the police quickly close her business. Now it's up to Goldy to find the rat who has tainted her food and her reputation.

Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz invites her friend and colleague Yolanda Garcia and Yo's aunt Ferdinanda to visit after a series of fires and murders leave them homeless, and she cannot keep from getting involved in the investigation after an intruder tries to break into her house.

The highly trained Secret Service agents couldn't do it. The snipers swarming the White House grounds were no help. Only Ollie Paras was able to stop the intruder hitting him with a frying pan. She'd like to wash her hands of the whole thing, but after she witness a murder, there's no going back.. Ollie's Secret Service boyfriend warns her that the killer is a world class assassin. And Ollie's the only person alive who can recognize him. Still, guilt...

Hannah has excellent reasons to despise the caddish Bradford Ramsey, as do many other women. Nevertheless, she'd rather not expose her youthful indiscretions, especially to her policeman beau. Hannah is very busy with the mayor's wife Lake Eden, Minn. charity event at which Ramsey is host. So what should she say when she stumbles upon his murdered corpse?