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Author Interview: Leslie Budewitz

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Leslie Budewitz

Leslie Budewitz is the author of the Food Lovers’ Village series, set in Montana, and the Spice Shop Mysteries, set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market.  Both are “foodie” cozies. As Alicia Beckman, she has written two suspense novels, and she has an historical short story collection coming out later this year.  Her most recent book, To Err is Cumin, the eighth book in her Spice Shop series, was published in July.  She is a triple Agatha Award winner and a Macavity nominee.  Welcome, Leslie! read more

Alice Henderson: A Solitude of Wolverines

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This book will be published October 27, 2020.

If this book isn’t the birth of a long running series, I would be stunned.  A definite relative of Nevada Barr’s long running and beloved Anna Pidgeon series, Alice Henderson has created an adventure suspense mystery with a foundation in the natural world.  While Anna Pigeon is a parks ranger, Alex Carter is a biologist who studies endangered species in their dwindling habitats.  Like Anna, however, Alex is definitely a bad ass.

Proving her hand with action scenes, the book opens with Alex attending an event celebrating the saving of a natural habitat within a city.  Her discovery of over a hundred species of birds who called the area home has prompted the city of Boston to create a protected space, upsetting plans for a development project.  Alex is due to be interviewed by a TV reporter – during the interview the two women are shot at and while Alex escapes, she is traumatized by the incident. read more