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Leslie Budewitz
Full Series List in Order
Food Lovers' Village
0.5 - An Unholy Death: A Novella (Sep-2023)1 - Death Al Dente (Aug-2013)
2 - Crime Rib (Jul-2014)
3 - Butter Off Dead (Jul-2015)
4 - Treble at the Jam Fest (Jun-2017)
5 - As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles (Jun-2018)
6 - Carried to the Grave and Other Stories (May-2021)
Spice Shop Mystery
1 - Assault and Pepper (Mar-2015)2 - Guilty as Cinnamon (Dec-2015)
3 - Killing Thyme (Oct-2016)
4 - Chai Another Day (Apr-2019)
5 - The Solace of Bay Leaves (Oct-2020)
6 - Peppermint Barked (Jul-2022)
7 - Between a Wok and a Dead Place (Jul-2023)
8 - To Err is Cumin (Jul-2024)
Book List in Order: 19 titles
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Death Al Dente
- Aug-2013
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The town of Jewel Bay, Montana--known as a Food Lovers' Village--is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family's century-old general store, she turns it into a boutique market filled with local delica...
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Assault and Pepper
- Mar-2015
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The Agatha Award-winning author of Crime Rib is proud to introduce Pepper Reece, the owner of the Seattle Spice Shop who thinks she can handle any kind of salty customer -- until a murderer ends up in the mix… After leaving a dicey marriage and ...
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Butter Off Dead
- Jul-2015
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As the national bestselling Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries continue, the merchants of Jewel Bay, Montana, try to heat up chilly winter business with a new film festival. But their plans are sent reeling when a dangerous killer dims the lights on a ...
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Guilty as Cinnamon
- Dec-2015
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Murder heats up Seattle’s Pike Place Market in the next Spice Shop mystery from the national bestselling author of Assault and Pepper. Springtime in Seattle’s Pike Place Market means tasty foods and wide-eyed tourists, and Pepper’s Spice Sho...
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Killing Thyme
- Oct-2016
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In Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece is savoring her business success, but soon finds her plans disrupted by a killer in the latest from the national bestselling author of Guilty as Cinnamon. Pepper Reece’s to-do list...
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Treble at the Jam Fest
- Jun-2017
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Murder Strikes a Sour Note Erin Murphy, manager of Glacier Mercantile (aka the Merc), is tuning up for Jewel Bay’s annual Jazz Festival. Between keeping the Merc’s shelves stocked with Montana’s tastiest local fare and hosting the festival’s...
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As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles
- Jun-2018
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In Jewel Bay, all is merry and bright. At Murphy’s Mercantile, AKA the Merc, manager Erin Murphy is ringing in the holiday season with food, drink, and a new friend: Merrily Thornton. A local girl gone wrong, Merrily’s turned her life around. But...
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Chai Another Day
- Apr-2019
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Seattle Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece probes murder while juggling a troubled employee, her mother’s house hunt, and a fisherman who’s set his hook for her.As owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece is always on...
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A Death in Yelapa
- May-2019
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The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 36 original tales with a culinary bent! Included are: A Cup of Tea, by Parnell Hall Brown Recluse, by Marcia Adair A Slice of Heaven,, by La...
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The Solace of Bay Leaves
- Oct-2020
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Pepper Reece never expected to find solace in bay leaves. But when her life fell apart at forty and she bought the venerable-but-rundown Spice Shop in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, her days took a tasty turn. Now she’s savoring the prospect of a f...
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Carried to the Grave and Other Stories
- May-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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In her Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, Agatha Award-winning author Leslie Budewitz introduces us to Jewel Bay, a tight-knit Montana community that thrives on tourism and farm-to-table fare. Featuring Erin Murphy, beloved proprietor of the Merc—...
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Peppermint Barked
- Jul-2022
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A Dickens of a Christmas turns deadly…As the holiday season lights up Seattle’s famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece’s beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockings. Add to the mix a tasty st...
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Between a Wok and a Dead Place
- Jul-2023
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It’s the Lunar New Year, and fortunes are about to change.Pepper Reece, owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market, loves a good festival, especially one serving up tasty treats. So what could be more fun than a food walk in the city's ...
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An Unholy Death: A Novella
- Sep-2023
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To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, we're bringing out stand-alone editions of readers' favorites from Carried to the Grave and Other Stories. Our first selection is the novella An Unholy Death, a historical prequ...
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The Christmas Stranger
- Nov-2023
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To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, we're bringing out stand-alone editions of readers' favorites from Carried to the Grave and Other Stories. Our second selection, after An Unholy Death, is the holiday short stor...
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To Err is Cumin
- Jul-2024
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One person’s treasure is another’s trash. . . Pepper Reece, owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, wants nothing more than to live a quiet life for a change, running her shop and working with customers eager to spice up their c...
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Award-Winning Books by Leslie Budewitz
2013 Agatha Award -- First Novel