Four Cuts Too Many (Sarah Blair Mystery #4)

by Debra H. Goldstein

Overview

When it comes to murder, there's no need to mince words . . .

Sarah Blair gets an education in slicing and dicing when someone in culinary school serves up a main corpse in Wheaton, Alabama...

Between working as a law firm receptionist, reluctantly pitching in as co-owner of her twin sister's restaurant, and caretaking for her regal Siamese RahRah and rescue dog Fluffy, Sarah has no time to enjoy life's finer things. Divorced and sort-of dating, she's considering going back to school. But as a somewhat competent sleuth, Sarah's more suited for criminal justice than learning how many ways she can burn a meal.

Although she wouldn't mind learning some knife skills from her sous chef, Grace Winston. An adjunct instructor who teaches cutlery expertise in cooking college, Grace is considering accepting an executive chef's position offered by Jane Clark, Sarah's business rival--and her late ex-husband's lover. But Grace's future lands in hot water when the school's director is found dead with one of her knives in his back. To clear her friend's name, Sarah must sharpen her own skills at uncovering an elusive killer...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496732217
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	05/25/2021
Series:	Sarah Blair Series , #4
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	282,305
Product dimensions:	4.73(w) x 7.01(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Debra H. Goldstein is the author of the Sarah Blair Mysteries, as well as Should Have Played Poker and IPPY Award-winning Maze in Blue. Her short stories, including Anthony and Agatha-nominated The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place, have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies. An active Birmingham, Alabama civic volunteer, Debra also serves on the national boards of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and is president of SEMWA and past president of SinC’s Guppy Chapter. Visit DebraHGoldstein.com to learn more.

Editorial Reviews

2021-03-31
When a prized employee is accused of murder, a restaurateur has to find the real killer or hire her replacement.

The recent expansion of their Southwind Pub and sister restaurant Southwind marks a turning point in the plans Sarah Blair and her twin sister, Emily, have to launch a restaurant group. Keeping staff like sous-chef Grace Winston happy is important to their future success. So Sarah’s understandably nervous when Grace asks to meet somewhere no one will run into them, and doubly nervous because she watched Grace leave work the day before to go to their No. 1 competitor, Jane’s Place, which is owned by Sarah’s nemesis, Jane Clark. Will Jane add insult to injury by stealing her chef, as she stole her husband two years before? Grace and Sarah arrange to talk at Carleton Junior Community College, the local school in Wheaton, Alabama, where Grace is an adjunct instructor of knife skills. Grace runs late, and when she finally does arrive, she’s covered in blood. She assures Sarah that an accident in class explains everything. But when the two return upstairs to Grace’s classroom, its door is blocked by police officers, behind whom Sarah can make out a prone body. It’s Dr. Douglas Martin, the interim chairman of the culinary program, known to faculty and staff alike as Malevolent Monster for his difficult leadership style. Given the blood on Grace’s apron and her area of expertise, Grace is a natural suspect, but Sarah’s certain the killer must be someone else. If she can only figure out who, maybe she won’t have to keep meeting her sous-chef in the clink.

A familiar recipe that’s more like an old standard than a candidate for a Michelin star.

Kirkus Reviews