{"title":"Leslie Budewitz","description":"Leslie Budewitz tells stories about women's lives, seasoned with friendship, food, a dash of history, and a heaping spoonful of mystery. She writes the Spice Shop mysteries set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, as well as the Food Lovers' Village mysteries and historical short fiction set in her native Montana. As Alicia Beckman, she writes moody suspense. A three-time Agatha Award winner--2013 Best First Novel for DEATH AL DENTE, the first Food Lovers' Village mystery; 2011 Best Nonfiction, and 2018 Best Short Story, for \"All God's Sparrows,\" her first historical fiction--she is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a former board member of Mystery Writers of America. Leslie lives and cooks in NW Montana.","products":[{"product_id":"lavender-lies-bleeding-paperback","title":"Lavender Lies Bleeding - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuccess isn't always so sweet in Leslie Budewitz's ninth addition to the Spice Shop Mystery series . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt Seattle Spice Shop, owner Pepper Reece has whipped up the perfect blend of food, friends, and flavor. But the sweet smell of success can be hazardous . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Spring is in full bloom in Pike Place Market, where Pepper is celebrating lavender's culinary uses and planning a festival she hopes will become an annual event. When her friend Lavender Liz offers to share tips for promoting the much-loved--and occasionally maligned--herb, Pepper makes a trek to the charming town of Salmon Falls. But someone has badly damaged Liz's greenhouse, throwing a wrench in the feisty grower's plans for expansion. Suspicions quickly focus on an employee who's taken to the hills, though Liz herself is not convinced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then Liz is found dead among her precious plants, stabbed by a pruning knife. In Salmon Falls, there's one in every pocket. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pepper digs in, untangling the tensions between Liz and a local restaurateur with eyes on a picturesque but neglected farm, a jealous ex-boyfriend determined to profit from Liz's success, and a local growers' cooperative. She's also hot on the scent of a trail of her own, sniffing out the history of her sweet dog, Arf. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Pepper's questions threaten to unearth secrets others desperately want to keep buried, danger creeps closer to her and those she loves. Can Pepper root out the killer, before someone nips her in the bud? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Includes delicious recipes!","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102813393119,"sku":"9781645060864","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ABz0PjJr3S9781645060864.webp?v=1781087403"},{"product_id":"all-gods-sparrows-and-other-stories-a-stagecoach-mary-fields-collection-paperback","title":"All God's Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary Fields Collection - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn into slavery in Tennessee, the remarkable \"Stagecoach Mary\" Fields was a larger-than-life figure who cherished her independence, yet formed a deep bond with the Ursuline Sisters, traveling to their Montana mission in 1885 and spending the last thirty years of her life living there or in nearby Cascade. Mary is believed to have been the first Black woman in the country to drive a U.S. Postal Star Route, the source of her nickname.\u003c\/p\u003e In All God's Sparrows and Other Stories, Agatha Award-winning author Leslie Budewitz brings together three short stories, each originally published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, imagining the life of Stagecoach Mary in her first year in Montana, and a novella exploring her later life, including:  \u003cstrong\u003eAll God's Sparrows\u003c\/strong\u003e, winner of the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; \u003cstrong\u003eMiss Starr's Goodbye\u003c\/strong\u003e, a nominee for the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award; \u003cstrong\u003eComing Clean\u003c\/strong\u003e, a finalist for the Western Writers of America's 2021 Spur Award for Best Short Story; and \u003cstrong\u003eA Bitter Wind\u003c\/strong\u003e, a brand-new novella in which Mary helps a young woman newly arrived in the valley solve the mystery of her fianc?'s death and his homesteading neighbors' bitterness toward him. Includes an abbreviated bibliography and historical notes from the author.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104432296159,"sku":"9781960511744","price":20.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vVXbfLOX6Q9781960511744.webp?v=1781108298"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/leslie-budewitz.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}