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Michael Kaplan is in his early thirties. He’s tall, dark, and handsome; intelligent, educated, and urbane. A woman-charmer, not a womanizer. Masculine, not macho. He has a law degree, but works beneath his education and abilities as a restaurant critic for the Las Vegas Times.

Myra Brotsky is a typical Jewish American Princess raised in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Myra’s primary goal in life is to find a handsome, wealthy Jewish man—preferably a doctor or a lawyer—and marry him. Her sights are set on Michael, who meets all but one of those criteria.

A bottle of bad wine starts them off on a wild West Coast jaunt followed by suspected killers and the police. The action builds to a cataclysmic climax and a shocking revelation.

TASTEVIN is Volume One of the Michael Kaplan Mysteries.