Murder from Scratch: A Sally Solari Mystery

Restaurateur Sally Solari´s cousin Evelyn may be blind, but she can see all too clearly that her chef mother´s death wasn´t an accidental overdose--she was murdered. Santa Cruz restaurateur Sally Solari´s life is already boiling over as she deals with irate cooks and other staffing issues at the busy Gauguin restaurant. The rainy December weather isn´t cooling things down, either. So she´s steamed when her dad persuades her to take in Evelyn, her estranged blind cousin whose mother has just died of a drug overdose. But Evelyn proves to be lots of fun and she´s a terrific cook. Back at the house she´d shared with her mom, Evelyn´s heightened sense of touch tells her that various objects--a bottle of cranberry juice, her grandfather´s jazz records--are out of place. She and her mom always kept things in the same place so Evelyn could find them. So she suspects that her mother´s death was neither accident nor suicide, no matter what the police believe. The cousins´ sleuthing takes Sally and Evelyn into the world of macho commercial kitchens, and the cutthroat competitiveness that can flame up between chefs. In Leslie Karst´s scrumptious fourth Sally Solari mystery, Sally will have to chop a long list of suspects down to size or end up getting burned.