Leslie Budewitz

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Leslie Budewitz | A Lunar New Year Celebration and a Murder Mystery
July 17, 2023
1--What is the title of your latest release? BETWEEN A WOK AND A  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | 20 Questions: PEPPERMINT BARKED
July 18, 2022
1--What is the title of your latest release? PEPPERMINT BARKED, Spice  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | Five Reasons I Love Seattle’s Pike Place Market
October 20, 2020
I fell in love with Seattle’s famed Pike Place Market as a college freshman, not long after the city’s voters  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | Author Reader Match: CHAI ANOTHER DAY
June 13, 2019
Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | The Scent of Memory
October 3, 2016
You’re walking down a street past an open window, and all of sudden, you’re in your grandmother’s house, a pot of her  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | Ten Favorite Things About Seattle
January 11, 2016
When I started telling people that my second Spice Shop mystery was on the way  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | The Family Biz
July 14, 2015
The family business is a small-town mainstay—alive if not always well. Those devilish statistics say about 30% of family-owned companies survive into  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | Collecting Can Be Murder
July 7, 2015
I thought I’d escaped the collector gene. My father’s baseball cards and memorabilia, his stamps and first-day covers, his postcards, the cameras  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | Rural or Urban: The Two Lives of a Cozy Setting
March 2, 2015
For most readers, the term “cozy mystery”—the light-hearted side of the genre—evokes a rural image. That’s certainly true of my   Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | Where do you get your ideas?
July 1, 2014
I hear tell that some authors don’t like that question. Not me! Maybe because I have a great memory—but mostly because it’s  Read More...

Leslie Budewitz | On Going Home
August 2, 2013
Home is—Jewel Bay, Montana "Home is where the heart is." "You can't go home again." "Home is the place where  Read More...