Thank you to #NetGalley, Rachel Courage and the publisher of the book for the eARC copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Rose’s cousin is eloping to Miami, and Rose is hosting. It might be more than she signed up for! The groom's family is snobby against St. Olaf's wedding traditions and if they don't accept them, her cousin will never be accepted to St. Olaf again!

Dorothy soon realizes she needs a date for the wedding. Turning to a VHS dating service, she believes she’s found the ideal date that can also make fun of the wedding. Unfortunately, the guy that looks good to her, seems to be a jerk. Dorothy realizes she'll just have to enjoy the company of Sophia, Blanche, and whomever Blanche has targeted.

The Girls all pitch in to help Rose who is thrilled that the tea-and-herring-themed kickoff event. Everything is going well until Dorothy’s "date" is found dead in the cheesecake. With every guest a suspect (especially Dorothy) and a marriage on the line, the four besties must figure out who the killer is and get the should-be-happy couple down the aisle.

Thank you for being a friend! A great Golden Girls read! I could picture all the characters and hear their voices as if this was a real episode!

As a long time Golden Girls fan, I was so excited for this book!

I love the characters (obviously), but the story was a little slow for my taste.

Thank you to Hyperion Avenue and the author for my advance copy!

Thank you, Hyperion Avenue and NetGalley, for my eARC. All opinions are solely my own.

Everyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with the Golden Girls (I mean, it's been my dream for forever to be a Golden Girl!), so when I saw this book, I jumped at the chance to read it.

I loved all of the references hidden in here about our favorite girls and loved following the girls as they did their sleuthing to exonerate Dorothy. This is chock-full of their hijinks and the bond that we've come to love. The writing was great and it was also easy to picture and hear the girls, which is important for such an iconic group.

I can't wait to read more in the series and see what else our girl get up to! I highly recommend!

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I was so excited to see a cozy mystery featuring the Golden Girls and Murder By Cheesecake did not disappoint! This book has total Golden Girls vibes in all of the descriptions of the setting, events, and the mystery. All of the ladies’ personalities are well captured in their characters. I love how the main story centers around Rose and her St. Olaf friends and family. All of the traditions bring a lot of fun elements into the book. The mystery brings in a good balance to the wedding prep fun for readers. I hope there will be more Golden Girls mysteries to come!

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

As a diehard Golden Girls fan I was a little disappointed in this. I’ll totally read more in the series, but I felt like the author didn’t really catch the character’s personalities well.

This was such a fun read for fans of the original TV series! I wasn't sure how the Golden Girls would translate to cozy mystery, but the author pulled it off nearly seamlessly. Hoping to see this continue into a series!

As a child I would stay up late watching Golden Girls with my great-grandma. This book brought back such good memories, like being tucked in to a nice warm bed and kissed on the forehead. I could hear the voices of all the girls in my head as I read, and picture all the scenes in detail. At times the nostalgia felt forced, however that was easy to overlook. I can't wait to recommend this to all my friends that grew up with the GGs and to my patrons that love cozies. Please tell me there will be a 2nd!!

If you love The Golden Girls, you will love Murder by Cheesecake! Your favorite characters are all here, and you can hear their voices as you read the book. Rachel Ekstrom Courage got the girls just right! I always love a good cozy mystery and this was definitely what I was looking for!

Thank you, netgalley for an ARC!

Murder by Cheesecake was everything I wanted from a Golden Girls mystery. It was a fun time, and I enjoyed turning off my brain and being entertained every time I picked it up. I would love to continue the series. We spent a lot of time focusing on the wedding when there was a whole dead body to deal with, but truly I did not come for the plot or the stakes - I came for Sophia and cheesecake, and I got both!

Absolutely loved this story. The author captured the authentic essence of the Golden Girls. I had several laugh out loud moments. So thankful this is the start of what I hope will be a prolific series. If you enjoy a witty, light hearted read, this is the book for you. Highly recommend.

I was blessed with an ARC and the opinions expressed are my own and unbiased.

If you've watched The Golden Girls, you will be able to envision the characters immediately throughout the story. There is a heavy focus on St. Olaf's wedding traditions and the rest of the narrative centers around Rose and Dorothy. Some of the cozy mystery was missing from this book; it felt more like an experimental episode of The Golden Girls. Overall, the connection to the show made it an enjoyable read, and if you're in the mood for something light, this would be a good choice.

This was a cute little read! The author was able to get the character’s voices just right, it was like I was reading an extra long episode of the show. I cannot wait to read the next book in the series.

I have always loved the Golden Girls and this book depicted them perfectly! The wedding of Rose’s niece Netty was hilarious to say the least. St Olaf’s traditions are truly one of a kind.

I really enjoyed this story.

I want to thank NetGalley and Hyperian Avenue for this advanced reader copy. This is my honest opinion of this book.

Give me a cute cozy mystery with Golden Girls every week, and I will devour it! This was such a fun, cute time. If you love the Golden Girls sitcom, you will love the vibes for this book!

I don't usually read murder mysteries but when I saw this book on NetGalley and saw that it was a cozy, Golden Girls themed murder mystery, I just knew I had to read it!

The characters are perfectly written and the fun part about characters you already know and love is that you can virtually hear them speaking their parts in the story. I loved how true to the original they were while telling a completely different kind of story with them.

The murder mystery was cozy indeed, nothing graphic or horrible which I really appreciated as a more sensitive reader. It happened and then we moved on to solving it. It felt a little like there was too much time spent explaining the St. Olaf wedding traditions at times and I was wishing there was more hints and clues found about what happened to the victim. When you do find out there wasn't really much in the story looking back that would have pointed that way. My curious mind wanted to try and find little clues along the way and found they were kind of missing. There was lots of humour along the way with hidden identities, misunderstandings and shenanigans to keep it lighter and cozy. There was also a fair bit of action where our Golden Girls are in some pretty dire situations that you are hoping they will find a way out of.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would love to read more mysteries starring Rose, Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia (who was always my favourite).

I received a digital reader copy of this book through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

I grew up watching the Golden Girls and still rewatch it frequently. So when I saw this I was so excited. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. Maybe I just got my hopes up too much. I was hoping it would be similar to the Thursday Murder Club series but it’s not quite up to par with that

As someone who loves The Golden Girls, a cozy mystery featuring the girls was a must buy for me. The narrator did an amazing job voicing all the girls and making them sound just like they did on the show. The story was good and really was a sort of extension of the show. I could see it as a storyline in the show.

A cute fun read! As a Golden Girls fan growing up, I the nostalgic of it all. The author really nailed the characters and it was fun to love able to clearly picture them, voice and all, while reading the book. A fun cozy mystery. Would only recommend for true Golden Girls Fans

I loved the idea of this and was hype to read it when I found out and it was super fun. The characters were perfect and spot on, exactly what I would expect from each Golden Girl.

The mystery was a little bit on the lacking side and I think there are a couple of loose ends that take away from this a little.

I still really enjoyed it and would love to see more from this series!

If you love the Golden Girls t.v. show, then this book is for you! I felt like I was experiencing a multi episode arc from the beginning of this book to the end! 5⭐️. Thanks to @netgalley for the ARC ebook copy!