It's autumn in Santa Cruz and restaurateur Sally Solari decides an open-air painting class is the perfect way for her to learn more about Paul Gauguin, the inspiration for the restaurant she has recently inherited. But the beauty of the Monterey Bay coastline is shattered when Sally's dog, Bust sniffs out a corpse tangled up in kelp. The body is identified as Gino Barbieri, a local fishermar who disappeared after dining at Sally's dad's restaurant, Solari's, a few nights before. Witnesses claim he left reeling drunk, but his waitress swears the old man had only two beers with his meal. When the fingers begin to point at Sally's dad for negligently allowing an inebriated customer to walk home alone at night, Sally must serve up the tall order of clearing her father's name.

ISBN: 139781335299864