Plastic flowers never fade

25. Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson.
Much better than the first one "Catering to nobody". I read that she changed publisher with her second book which might account for the depth the secondary characters have instead of being paper thin cut out like the first book. Goldy still annoys me to no end but I liked Arch (her son), Tom Schulz (police detective and on and off suitor of Goldy), Julian and the crazy retired General enough to stick with the plot. I was surprised. The character I thought was the culprit wasn't. If only because Davidson managed to surprise me and not go the obvious way I'm gonna read the next one, "The Cereal Murders".

I'm soon going back to Elizabeth Peters and Ramses Emerson all grown up. I'm jumping ahead in the published books to "Guardian of the Horizon" that I've ordered from Amazon UK because that's the edition I want, almost all of my books from that series are from this publisher. I like the size, the feel of the paper much better than the Harper Collins reissue. I'm picky that way. Guardian of the Horizon is right between The Ape Who Guards the Balance and The Falcon at the Portal.