A Measure of Murder
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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 Eric's chorus, which is performing a newly discovered version of her favorite composition: the Mozart Requiem. But then, at the first rehearsal, a tenor falls to his death on the church courtyard—and his soprano girlfriend is sure it wasn't an accident.
Now Sally's back on another murder case mixed in with a dash of revenge, a pinch of peril, and a suspicious stack of sheet music. And while tensions in the chorus heat up, so does the kitchen at Gauguin—set aflame right as Sally starts getting too close to the truth. Can Sally catch the killer before she's burnt to a crisp, or will the case grow as cold as yesterday's leftovers?
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Leslie Karst. (2017). A Measure of Murder. CROOKED LANE BOOKS.
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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 Eric's chorus, which is performing a newly discovered version of her favorite composition: the Mozart Requiem. But then, at the first rehearsal, a tenor falls to his death on the church courtyard—and his soprano girlfriend is sure it wasn't an accident.
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Starred review from December 5, 2016
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—helping manage her father’s red-sauce Italian restaurant while overseeing the nouveau California Gaugin inherited from Aunt Letta—her DA ex-beau, Eric Byrne, talks her into auditioning for his chorus’s summer performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Halfway through the first rehearsal, the talented but snarky tenor Kyle Copman takes a fatal plunge through a window. The cops say accident. Sally eyeballs the angle of the body and says murder. Whether extolling 00 flour, considering Mozart’s unsung collaborators, describing the thrill of biking with a possible murderer, or explaining the fine points of will-writing, polymath Karst sauces her plot without masking its flavor. And she’s a dab hand with the red herrings. Agent: Erin Niumata, Folio Literary Management.
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A restaurant owner with a reputation as a sleuth reluctantly adds murder to her plate. Sally Solari is still helping her dad at Solari's, the family's Italian restaurant, even as she takes on more duties at Gauguin, the restaurant she inherited from her murdered aunt. Despite all these responsibilities, she's found time for an old love she's been away from for years: singing with a chorus. Encouraged by her former boyfriend Eric and her old friend Allison, both members of the chorus, she auditions for Marta, a tough but fair choral director a lot more popular than sarcastic tenor Kyle, who ends up dead when he apparently falls from an upper-story window at the practice venue. Sally thinks his death is suspicious and finds it hard to say no when Kyle's girlfriend, Jill, begs her to investigate. The piece they're preparing is the Mozart "Requiem" in a previously unknown version that Marta discovered in a Prague bookshop and sold for quite a lot of money. The police write the death off as an accident, but more sinister motives emerge when Kyle's will, which leaves bequests to Jill, his brother, and his son from a former marriage, turns out not to be legal, entitling his son to the whole estate. Identifying other suspects who might have reason to kill Kyle, Sally struggles to choose which one may have done the deed while juggling duties at two restaurants and perfecting her unexpected solo. Karst (Dying for a Taste, 2016), who's done many of the things she gives her heroine to do, provides a mystery that rings true and features several unexpected twists along with the appended recipes that are de rigueur for culinary cozies.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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