Saturday, March 9, 2019

Murder from Scratch: A Sally Solari Mystery by Leslie Karst

Sally is very busy running the restaurant she inherited, trying to keep her employees happy and working well together, and just taking care of regular duties.  When her father asks her to take in her cousin whose mother had just died, she feels a bit resentful.  She's blind and will need to have someone around to tour the house, learn where everything is and help around town.  How's she going to be able to do all that in addition to running a restaurant?

Crooked Lane Books and Net Galley allowed me to read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published April 9th.

Evelyn may be blind but she learns new surroundings quickly and settles into a routine with Sally.  She manages on her own when Sally works.  She also confides in Sally and tells her she doesn't think her mother committed suicide as the cops think.  Things are out of place.  She keeps everything she uses in the same place so she can find it again.  Several things were out of place and she thinks there was someone else there.  She was at her girlfriend's home and wasn't home then.  Even the suicide note was addressed to her full name and her mother never called her that. Sally finds herself agreeing with her and they begin to do some investigating themselves.

There are several people who become suspects.  Her old boss thinks she took recipes from his restaurant with her.  She fired another cook and Rachel hasn't forgotten that.  Max is her friend or is he?

Sally searches until she finds a motive but she makes the mistake of getting too close to the killer...

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