The Steaks Are High

A Karnie Cleaver Mystery

Karnie Cleaver works in her family's butcher shop. Things have changed in her life lately. She married her brother's best friend, Matt Roeback, and is happy to help him raise his two kids. Once his farmhouse is renovated, they're moving into it, and she's selling her cozy bungalow. Add to that, her older brother is moving back home to work in the family's shop. Porter's always been the golden boy who could do no wrong--a hard pill to swallow. She has a lot on her plate, and then Jethro Thromm--one of her favorite customers--asks her to help prove that his brother, Earl, didn't kill Glandale's councilman, even though Earl was bending over his body in the alley, holding the knife that killed him.