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Books in Order: 10 titles

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  • Retired caterer Valerie Corbin investigates a suspicious poisoning in this Orchid Isle cozy culinary mystery, featuring a feisty queer couple who swap surfing lessons for sleuthing sessions in tropical Hilo, Hawai'i.A dinner to die for!It's been an e...



  • 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 in Hi...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • "The book is a romp from cover to cover -- and, just like a great meal, left me ready for more." -- Karen Shimizu, Executive Editor, Food & Wine   When Leslie Karst learned that her offer to cook dinner for Supreme Court Justice Ruth ...



  • 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...



  • 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 wi...



  • 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 about ...



  • 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 ...






  • 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 attorne...


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leslie Karst has published 10 books.

Leslie Karst does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder, Local Style, was published in April 2026.

The first book by Leslie Karst, Dying for a Taste, was published in April 2016.

Yes. Leslie Karst has 2 series.