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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Leslie Budewitz

Leslie Budewitz tells stories about women’s lives, seasoned with friendship, food, a dash of history, and a 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 and past president of Sisters in Crime, she lives in NW Montana with her husband, a musician and doctor of natural medicine.


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Series

Food Lovers' Village | Seattle Spice Shop

Books:

Lavender Lies Bleeding, July 2025
Spice Shop Mystery #9
Paperback / e-Book
To Err is Cumin, August 2024
Spice Shop Mysteries #8
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Between A Wok And A Dead Place, July 2023
Spice Shop Mystery
Paperback / e-Book
Peppermint Barked, July 2022
Spice Shop Mystery
Trade Size / e-Book
The Solace of Bay Leaves, November 2020
A Spice Shop Mystery #5
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Chai Another Day, June 2019
A Spice Shop Mystery #4
Paperback / e-Book
As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles, June 2018
Food Lovers' Village Mystery
Paperback / e-Book
Treble at the Jam Fest, June 2017
Food Lover's Mystery #4
Paperback / e-Book
Killing Thyme, October 2016
Spice Shop #3
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Guilty as Cinnamon, December 2015
Spice Shop #2
Paperback / e-Book
Butter Off Dead, July 2015
Food Lovers' Village #3
Paperback / e-Book
Assault And Pepper, March 2015
Seattle Spice Shop Mysteries #1
Paperback / e-Book
Crime Rib, July 2014
Food Lovers' Village #2
Paperback / e-Book
Death Al Dente, August 2013
Food Lovers' Village Series #1
Paperback / e-Book
Books, Crooks And Counselors, October 2011
Paperback / e-Book