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Also by Leslie Karst:

Murder, Local Style, April 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Molten Death, December 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Murder from Scratch, April 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Death al Fresco, March 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
A Measure of Murder, February 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Dying for a Taste, April 2016
Hardcover

DEATH AL FRESCO
By: Leslie Karst

Crooked Lane Books
March 2018
On Sale: March 13, 2018
Featuring: Sally Solari
320 pages
ISBN: 1683315324
EAN: 9781683315322
Kindle: B074MC37M3
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

When her father is fingered for murder, it’s up to Sally Solari to serve up the real killer before their new restaurant’s reputation goes up in smoke.

It’s Indian summer in Santa Cruz and restaurateur Sally Solari decides an open-air painting class is the perfect way for her to learn more about Paul Gaugin, the inspiration for her family’s newest restaurant. But the beauty of the Monterey Bay coastline is shattered when Sally’s dog Buster sniffs out a corpse tangled up in kelp.

The body is identified as Gino, a local fisherman and a regular at the Solaris’ restaurant until he disappeared after dining there a few nights before. Witnesses claim he left reeling drunk, but his waitress swears Gino only had two beers with his dinner. And then the fingers begin to point at Sally’s dad for negligently allowing an inebriated customer to walk home alone at night.

From a long menu of suspects that includes Anastasia, the mysterious woman who dined with Gino that fateful night, Gino’s deckhand Bobby, and bocce player Frank who accused Gino of cheating, Sally must serve up the tall order to clear her father’s name.