Well, the train isn’t moving yet but I am on it, so I have begun the new Goldy book and a) Father Olson is almost definitely dead, b) this is uncomfortably familiar to recent experiences of mine…
Also, first mention of Julian the bisexual teenage pool boy with the tragic past is on page nine. I hope he’s all over this one!
I was totally right about the priest by did not expect the CHAPTER TWO TWIST that the groom is also missing omg
Goldy has gone to witness the scene of the crime in her wedding dress AND HER WEDDING SHOES. This seems like something the police escorting her should have questioned.
A really big deal is being made in this book about the fact that Episcopalians don’t hang up on people. I can’t tell whether this is a clue, or if someone hung up on Diane Mott Davidson and she’s just THAT MAD about it.
Is reconcilably a word? I suspect it is not.
There is a Lot Of Church in this one, holy Moses. Someone in the Episcopalian church, probably on a committee, definitely hung up on Diane Mott Davidson and I applaud her dedication to pettiness in writing an entire book about it.
Time stamp it, page 194 of 272, I think the cop investigating the case dunnit!
Goldy continues to both cater and crime-solve after being beaten with a stick and put on prescription painkillers. This seems like a series of poor life choices, but even Goldy would admit that is in character for her.
OH SHIT it wasn’t the cop at all, DAMMIT.
I won’t spoil whodunit just in case some of you now want to read these books, but it was the character that I deliberately discounted as being too obvious.
Also while Julian has been upgraded from Bisexual Poolboy With A Tragic Past to Bisexual Vegetarian Catering Assistant With A Tragic Past he also was not in this book enough for me, nor did he get to flirt with all genders as he has in past books, rats. I will have to wait for my next camping trip to see if he’s in book five.
I’m pretty sure there’s a name for “a book that is entirely about the Dark Secrets and Secret Desires Of A Single Community,” like Peyton Place or The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter or The Casual Vacancy (or, I guess, The Lottery) but I don’t know what it is. On the one hand I feel like all of the Goldy books are that way because they’re set within a relatively small and secluded Colorado town, but I also feel like this one, because it was such a deep examination of the community of the Episcopalian Church, was a very pointed example.
I genuinely believe that this book was written by Diane Mott Davidson in response to someone in the Episcopalian Church who did her dirty, and I hope she got some catharsis because I am ready to not read anything more about Episcopalian politics for a while.
Mooncustafer 