Book #10 The Grilling Season by Diane Mott Davidson

This is the seventh book in the series starring Goldy Schulz. These are surprisingly good and exciting mysteries. How does a caterer in a small town find herself involved in every murder case in the Colorado town? Well that's simple; she's a busy-body. I actually ordered the 6th and 7th books (from Amazon of course) at the same time, and grabbed this one by mistake. I missed a few events in her life, but it didn't put me behind on the plot. Another nice feature of books like these; you can read out of order and still enjoy. So what I found interesting about this book, written in 1994, is that the premise involved a beast of a woman who was vice president of the local HMO. Much of the conflict revolved around the HMO making decisions about the healthcare of their members rather than leaving it up to the doctors. I wonder if the author wrote this book because at the same time, the Clinton's were trying to push healthcare through the Senate. Did she have an ulterior motive? Was she trying to display for the common, everyday, beach-novel readers what problems we were facing in the health care world? Was she trying to give us the inside view of the corruption, dishonesty, and cover-up? Something to ponder.