Murder by Cheesecake is the first cozy mystery by Rachel Ekstrom Courage featuring the Golden Girls (from the TV series). Released 15th April 2025 by Disney Int'l (they own the license) on their Hyperion Ave. publishing imprint, it's 336 pages and is available in paperback, audio, and ebook formats.
The book, the characters, the settings, the ancillary characters, in short everything is quite often almost caricature campy and overdone, nearly (but not quite) breaking the fourth wall. There are a number of super precious details which only seemed placed to tie the characters to their TV personas. The secondary characters are largely over-the-top stereotypes, but again, fair play for the genre (and with the full understanding that it's not meant to be anything other than an escape and homage).
The language is very clean and the violence level is "cozy" (no egregious on page descriptions).
Three and a half stars, with the understanding that it's primarily aimed at readers who are huge golden girls fans already and just want to read an escapist book "episode"
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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