Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery

Literary agent Courage (Nothing Bad Happens Here) kicks off a new series with this breezy whodunit featuring characters from The Golden Girls. When Rose Nylund’s niece decides to hold her wedding in Miami, the eager to please Midwesterner’s Norwegian American family descends on Florida, spiking Rose’s anxiety. Rose and her friends soon find they have bigger herring to fry, however, when hard-nosed Dorothy Zbornak is arrested at the bridal shower after a man she met through a VHS dating service is found dead with his face down in a cheesecake. Horrified, Rose enlists Southern belle Blanche and Dorothy’s mother, Sophia, to help clear Dorothy’s name, while trying to keep the wedding plans more or less on track. Courage splendidly captures the voices and mannerisms of her much-loved characters, and wisely resists the impulse to modernize the show’s 1980s Miami setting. For Golden Girls fans, this is a nostalgic delight. Agent: Andrea Somberg, Harvey Klinger Agency. (Apr.)