Today is publication day for SMFS list member Leslie
Budewitz’s new book, Between a Wok and a Dead Place: A Spice Shop Mystery.
This is the seventh book in the series that originally started with Assault
and Pepper. Published by Seventh
Street Books, the book is out today in digital and print formats at Amazon
and other vendors.
Publisher Description:
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 Chinatown–International
District, celebrating the Year of the Rabbit?
But when her friend Roxanne stumbles across a man's
body in the Gold Rush, a long-closed residential hotel, questions leap out. Who
was he? What was he doing in the dust-encrusted herbal pharmacy in the hotel's
basement? Why was the pharmacy closed up—and why are the owners so reluctant to
talk?
With each new discovery, Pepper finds herself asking
new questions and facing more brick walls.
Then questions arise about Roxanne and her relationship
to Pepper's boyfriend Nate, away fishing in Alaska. Between her worries and her
struggle to hire staff at the Spice Shop, Pepper has her hands and her heart
full. Still, she can't resist the lure of the Gold Rush and its tangled history
of secrets and lies stretching back nearly a century.
But the killer is on her tail, driven by hidden demons and desires. As Pepper begins to expose the long-concealed truth, a bigger question emerges: Can she uncover the secrets of the Gold Rush Hotel without being pushed from the wok into the fire?
2 comments:
Thanks for the shout-out, Kevin!
Just doing the job. Hope it helps.
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