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Lavender Lies Bleeding - by Leslie Budewitz (Paperback)

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  • Success isn't always so sweet in Leslie Budewitz's ninth addition to the Spice Shop Mystery series . . . At Seattle Spice Shop, owner Pepper Reece has whipped up the perfect blend of food, friends, and flavor.
  • About the Author: Leslie Budewitz tells stories about women's lives, seasoned with friendship, food, a dash of history, and a heaping spoonful of mystery.
  • 313 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective

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Success isn't always so sweet in Leslie Budewitz's ninth addition to the Spice Shop Mystery series . . .

At 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 . . .

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.

Then Liz is found dead among her precious plants, stabbed by a pruning knife. In Salmon Falls, there's one in every pocket.

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.

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?

Includes delicious recipes!



Review Quotes




"Lavender Lies Bleeding, with its "Food, friends, and flavors" is another strong entry in one of my favorite cozy mystery series." --Lesa Holstine

"I truly enjoy . . . the richly detailed Seattle setting and Pepper herself, who is good humored but quirky enough to be an interesting human being."--Robin Agnew, Aunt Agatha's Mysteries



About the Author



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 313
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective
Publisher: Seventh Street Books
Theme: Women Sleuths
Format: Paperback
Author: Leslie Budewitz
Language: English
Street Date: July 15, 2025
TCIN: 94459778
UPC: 9781645060864
Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-8786
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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