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Now a year married to husband Tom, an investigator with the Sheriff's Department, her happiness is tempered by the rocky finances of Goldilocks' Catering. It may be high season for weddings and parties, but Goldy's phone remains relentlessly silent.
To the rescue comes her very best friend, Marla Korman -- the first ex-wife of Goldy's ex-husband -- who lands her a lucrative, high-profile party. The flamboyant, ultrarich Marla has a large portfolio with Prospect Financial Partners, a venture capital firm run by her on-again off-again boyfriend, Tony Royce, and his partner, Albert Lipscomb. To interest potential investors, Prospect is throwing a designer beer and hors dÕoeuvres affair at the about-to-be-reopened Eurydice Gold Mine.
But Goldy has no more than served up the shrimp dumplings than a hailstorm strikes -- and so does Marla, who ends up in a very public brawl with Albert. Armed with newly discovered evidence that the mine may not be all Albert has claimed, Marla demands a meeting to discuss what she believes are phony assay reports. When Marla, with Goldy in tow, shows up at Albert's office, he's a no-show. A trip to Albert's house reveals his clothes and passport have gone missing as well. Then it's discovered that Albert, accompanied by the female bank teller who helped him help himself, has also made off with three and a half million dollars from the partner's bank account.
The disappearance leads to murder, and soon the police show up to arrest Marla for murder. To prove her friend's innocence, Goldy enlists the enthusiastic help of retired General Bo Farquhar, Marla's brother in-law. Recently released from prison for the illegal possession of rocket-propelled grenades and an assortment of Uzis, Bo and Marla have not been close since he accidentally blew up her sister, Adele.
With the help of the General, lime jello, a failed tracking bloodhound, and an ambulance hijacking, all is revealed and readers are left with the satisfaction of knowing not only who done it, but with great recipes for Plantation Pilaf and Chocoholic Cookies.
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