Leslie Karst. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62953-597-5
The stabbing murder of Violetta Solari in the prep room of Solari’s, her Santa Cruz, Calif., restaurant, propels Karst’s winning debut, the first in a cozy series. Detective Vargas, the lead investigator on the case, suspects sous-chef Javier Ruiz,...
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Leslie Karst. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68331-018-1
Engaging characters, terrific writing, and a savory blend of musical and culinary erudition build on the promise of Karst’s series opener, 2016’s Dying for a Taste. As if Santa Cruz, Calif., former lawyer Sally Solari didn’t have enough on her plate—
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Leslie Karst. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68331-532-2
Karst’s routine third mystery featuring Santa Cruz, Calif., restaurateur Sally Solari (after 2017’s A Measure of Murder) opens with Sally taking part in a painting class on the beach. When her dog starts digging furiously in a pile of kelp, Sally...
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Leslie Karst. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68331-953-5
Competition can be murder, as Sally Solari, the owner of a French-Polynesian restaurant in Santa Cruz, Calif., can attest, in Karst’s lively fourth series whodunit (after 2018’s Death Al Fresco). Sally’s dad, Mario, has his own Italian seafood place,
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Leslie Karst. Severn, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0903-0
At the start of Karst’s enjoyable fifth outing for Santa Cruz, Calif., chef Sally Solari (after 2019’s Murder from Scratch), Sally realizes that a sinus infection has left her without a sense of smell. The timing couldn’t be worse, with the annual...
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Leslie Karst. She Writes, $17.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-64742-458-9
Foodie mystery writer Karst (Dying for a Taste) recalls her experience preparing a meal for an intimate dinner party honoring late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her belabored nonfiction debut. Karsts’s attorney father befriended...
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Leslie Karst. Severn House, $31.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0905-4
Karst’s breezy sixth cozy featuring Sally Solari (following Justice Is Served) opens with the chef and restaurateur volunteering to assist her pals Kamila and Lucinda with a fundraiser they’re hosting at their hip bookstore café in Santa Cruz, Calif.
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Leslie Karst. Severn House, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1216-0
Karst (the Sally Solari mysteries) introduces grief-stricken retired caterer Valerie Corbin in this entertaining cozy series launch. Valerie, the traumatized survivor of a car accident that killed her brother, Charlie, knows her emotional numbness...
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