The Master Plan - Carol Costa, Author
3:51 PM Posted by MAC
PINEAPPLE-LIME
JELLO MOLD
(a Carol Costa specialty)
2
small packages or 1 large package of Lime Jello
1
10 ounce can of crushed pineapple
1
pint Sour Cream
Prepare
Jello according to package directions and chill until partially set
Drain
pineapple and stir into jello with the sour cream
Pour
mixture into a 13 x 9 inch pan and chill several hours before serving.
The Master Plan – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh,
Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds – Desserts
Carmen and Cathy both
stared at Casey. Finally Carmen spoke. “What is going on in that
devious mind of yours Casey?” Casey laughed. “Forget it. It probably
won’t work.” “Let us be the judge of that,” Cathy told her. “Okay. We
pool our money and one of us joins the country club. Once she’s a
member she starts socializing with the rich guys and snags herself a
wealthy mate. She can also bring her two friends to the club for some
of the activities and introduce them to her husband’s rich friends.”
“That’s absolutely brilliant” Carmen exclaimed. “Let’s do it.” “Wait a minute,” Cathy said. “Where are we going to
get twenty-five thousand dollars?” “From your bank,” Carmen answered. “We’ll take out a loan and after we marry the rich guys they can pay it off for us. Only I’m not the one who is going to join the club. Casey has to do it.” And that is exactly what the ‘three Cs’ (Carmen, Cathy and Casey) did. They took out a loan to pay the application fee and Casey became the country club’s newest member.
get twenty-five thousand dollars?” “From your bank,” Carmen answered. “We’ll take out a loan and after we marry the rich guys they can pay it off for us. Only I’m not the one who is going to join the club. Casey has to do it.” And that is exactly what the ‘three Cs’ (Carmen, Cathy and Casey) did. They took out a loan to pay the application fee and Casey became the country club’s newest member.
It
didn’t take long for her to hook up with Anthony (Tony) Hunter while
Carmen and Cathy both found catches for themselves. It also wasn’t long
before Tony asked Casey to run off to Vegas with him to be married,
which she did. But all good things must come to an end so after
returning home, Casey decided to tell Tony about ‘The Master Plan,’
which is what the 3 Cs had named their plan. While hoping for his understanding, Casey instead was asked to leave. Casey gave Tony some time to calm
down and then went back to the apartment in hopes of talking to him and
making him understand. What she found when she got to the apartment
soon became her worse nightmare.
Dana Sloan is an investigative
reporter who seems to find herself mixed up in more than the usual
‘who’s ripping off the consumer’ investigations. She seems to somehow
stumble into a murder now and then. In The Master Plan she ends up
being involved in three murders with a friend, Judy, and a co-worker,
Casey, being involved in two of them. Her detective boyfriend Al Bruno
is handling two of the cases and really doesn’t want Dana involved. He
has his own plans for Dana and they don’t include risking your life to
complete an investigation. His ideas for her are more on the line of
her becoming a soccer/PTA mom.
The biggest conflict in their
relationship is when Dana steps into Bruno’s investigations or when
Bruno withholds information Dana needs for her investigation and she is
now involved in two. From what Dana has learned, she has come to the
conclusion that all three murders are related. Bruno can’t see it. He
still feels that the wives of his 2 cases just might be guilty and since
they don’t know each other, the cases have no connections.
So… are
they related? Will Dana be able to solve one, two or all three without
getting herself killed? Will Casey and the 3Cs be able to pull off
their little plan without being discovered? These were questions I
carried all the way to the end. I usually have a list of my own
suspects but with The Master Plan, I had none. I was really surprised
to find out who killed who and why. I think you will too.









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I'm from Georgia, moved to North Carolina by way of Florida. I've been in Charlotte for 14 years and love it. The recipes in my book Stir, Laugh, Repeat are all tested by "Food Testers" of which I now have 24. They try a dish and rate it from 1-10 with only those scoring at least an 8 making the book. My website is a holding place for my 2nd book Stir, Laugh, Repeat... Again. Please visit my site to find new recipes and tips. All recipes are easy, using common ingredients and according to my testers, great!
January 20, 2012 2:32 PM
I love the recipe. I suspect I would love the book too. Great review!