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Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz
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 losing a beloved job in a corporate crash, Pepper Reece has found a new zest for life running a busy spice and tea shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Her aromatic creations are the talk of the town, and everyone stops by for a cup of her refreshing spice tea, even other shopkeepers and Market regulars. But when a panhandler named Doc shows up dead on the store's doorstep, a Seattle Spice Shop cup in his hand, the local gossip gets too hot for Pepper to handle--especially after the police arrest one of Pepper's staffers, Tory Finch, for murder.
Tory seems to know why she's a suspect, but she refuses to do anything to curry favor with the cops. Convinced her reticent employee is innocent, Pepper takes it on herself to sniff out some clues. Only, if she's not careful, Pepper's nosy ways might make her next on the killer's list...
Leslie Budewitz's two cozy mystery series, the Spice Shop Mysteries, set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, set in NW Montana, combine her love of food, excellent mysteries, and the Northwest. Leslie has won three Agatha Awards: Best First Novel in 2013 for DEATH AL DENTE, the first Food Lovers' Village mystery; Best Nonfiction in 2011; and Best Short Story in 2018 for All God's Sparrows, her first work of historical fiction. Her work has also been nominated for Derringer, Anthony, and Macavity awards, and she has won or been nominated for them. She lives and cooks in NW Montana, where she is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a current board member of Mystery Writers of America.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780425271780 |
| ISBN 10 | 0425271781 |
| Title | Assault and Pepper |
| Author | Leslie Budewitz |
| Series | A Spice Shop Mystery |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2015-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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