Leslie Karst

An Orchid Isle Mystery

1 - Molten Death (Apr-2024)
2 - Waters of Destruction (Apr-2025)

A Sally Solari Mystery

1 - Dying for a Taste (Apr-2016)
2 - A Measure of Murder (Feb-2017)
3 - Death Al Fresco (Mar-2018)
4 - Murder from Scratch (Mar-2019)
5 - The Fragrance of Death (Aug-2022)
6 - A Sense for Murder (Aug-2023)

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  Dying for a Taste
  

  • Apr-2016
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Sally Solari Mystery - 1
  

  This fun culinary cozy mystery debut “features a spunky heroine, a mystery loaded with red herrings, [and] oodles of food lore” -- perfect for foodies and fans of Joanne FlukeAfter losing her mother to cancer, Sally Solari quits her job as an att...

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  A Measure of Murder
  

  • Feb-2017
  • / Mystery
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  A Sally Solari Mystery - 2
  

  Sally Solari is busy juggling work at her family’s Italian restaurant, Solari’s, and helping Javier plan the autumn menu for the restaurant she’s just inherited, Gauguin. Complicating this already hectic schedule, Sally joins her ex-boyfriend E...

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  Death Al Fresco
  

  • Mar-2018
  • / Mystery
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  A Sally Solari Mystery - 3
  

  It’s up to Sally Solari to serve up a killer before their family restaurant’s reputation goes up in smoke.It’s early autumn in Santa Cruz and restaurateur Sally Solari decides an open-air painting class is the perfect way for her to learn more ...

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  Murder from Scratch
  

  • Mar-2019
  • / Mystery
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  A Sally Solari Mystery - 4
  

  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 ...

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  The Fragrance of Death
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Sally Solari Mystery - 5
  

  Restaurateur Sally Solari has a nose for trouble, but when her sense of smell goes missing, it's not just her career on the line . . . it's her life.Restaurateur Sally Solari is a champion, both in the kitchen and on the case, but after getting mixed...

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  A Sense for Murder
  

  • Aug-2023
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Sally Solari Mystery - 6
  

  Chef Sally Solari has - to her own bewilderment - built a reputation as a talented sleuth who keeps tripping over dead bodies. But getting mixed up in the curious case of a cookbook killer threatens to be the final chapter in not just her investigati...

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  Molten Death
  

  • Apr-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  An Orchid Isle Mystery - 1
  

  A glimpse of a quickly melting corpse at the foot of a volcano has amateur sleuth and food enthusiast Valerie Corbin shocked. But how can she investigate a murder, when there's no evidence the victim ever existed?The first Orchid Isle cozy mystery, s...

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  Waters of Destruction
  

  • Apr-2025
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Orchid Isle Mystery - 2
  

  Retired caterer Valerie Corbin investigates a suspicious drowning in this Orchid Isle cozy culinary mystery, featuring a feisty queer couple who swap surfing lessons for sleuthing sessions in tropical Hilo, Hawai‘iAfter a vacation of a lifetime...

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