Tough Cookie

Its place in Goldy Schulz

Tough Cookie is book 9 in the Goldy Schulz series. It follows Prime Cut. It is followed by Sticks and Scones. See the full Goldy Schulz reading order.

Goldy Schulz (later Goldy Bear) is a divorced single mother turned professional caterer in Aspen Meadow, Colorado, whose gigs — country-club luncheons, church socials, ski-town society events — keep putting her at the scene of the crime, usually with a body cooling next to the canapes. Goldy cooks her way through every investigation, quite literally: each novel is packed with real, tested recipes tied to the story's menus, and her sharp tongue and hard-won independence (her first husband, referred to throughout…