



She was the guest of honor at the 2007 Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave in Manhattan, Kansas. In Double Shot, all recipes are compiled and printed at the end of the novel. Double Shot, the 12th novel, marked a change in the publishing of these recipes. When a dish is first described in the novel, the relevant recipe followed within the next few pages. The first 12 books interwove recipes with the novel's text. Robin Vidimos noted that Aspen Meadow, CO, closely resembles a real Colorado town, Evergreen, where Mott Davidson resides with her family. As the series progresses, new characters are introduced that change Goldy's professional and personal life. At the start of the series, Goldy is a recently divorced mother with a young son trying to make a living as a caterer in the fictional town of Aspen Meadow, CO. The main character in Mott Davidson's novels is Goldy Schulz, a small town caterer who also solves murder mysteries in her spare time. In real life, Mott Davidson transferred from Wellesley and eventually graduated from Stanford University. In a few of her novels (particularly, The Cereal Murders), she references a prestigious eastern women's college that her sleuth, Goldy Schulz, attended before transferring to the University of Colorado in Boulder. Mott Davidson studied political science at Wellesley College and lived across the hall from Hillary Clinton.

Her story, "Cold Turkey", won the 1993 Anthony Award for "Best Short-story". Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. B.A., Stanford University M.A., Johns Hopkins Universityĭiane Mott Davidson (born ( )March 22, 1949) is an American author of mystery novels that use the theme of food, an idea she got from Robert B.
