{"id":6545,"date":"2025-07-22T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2025-07-22T06:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:18:48","slug":"leslie-budewitz-lavender-lies-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/leslie-budewitz-lavender-lies-bleeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Budewitz: Lavender Lies Bleeding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spice Shop #9<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I enjoy all my meetups with Pepper Reece at her charming Seattle Spice Shop.\u00a0 The books are set in the iconic Pike Place Market, and Pepper is very much an active part of the market community.\u00a0 Many of the books have taken place in and around the Market, but in this one, Pepper ventures out to a nearby lavender farm.\u00a0 She\u2019s planning a lavender festival at the market and thinking of ways to get as many vendors as possible involved in her venture.<\/p>\n

To this end, she\u2019s gone out to the farm of a friend, Liz, who has a lavender farm in Salmon Falls<\/a>. While the real Salmon Falls is now an historical (and abandoned) landmark, the Salmon Falls in the book is a lively place.\u00a0 When Pepper arrives, though, Liz\u2019s greenhouse has been trashed and the police are on the hunt for the boyfriend of Abby, Liz\u2019s assistant, as the possible culprit for the vandalism. \u00a0Abby is sure he\u2019s innocent.<\/p>\n

While Pepper is more than disturbed and does what she can to help her friend, she ventures into town to make connections with local lavender suppliers in support of her festival.\u00a0 When Liz is later found murdered in her greenhouse, however, things begin to take an even more sinister turn.\u00a0 The players in the drama are mostly in Salmon Falls, but there are tendrils that tie into Pepper\u2019s life, and, mourning Liz, she\u2019s inevitably drawn into trying to solve the murder.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Pepper\u2019s personal life is going well, as she and her boyfriend seem to be edging closer to commitment.\u00a0 The other main character in this book is Arf, her Airedale, a dog she\u2019d adopted after his homeless owner had left the state to be with family.\u00a0 Arf is a real gentleman and an excellent dog character, who realistically needs walks and food.\u00a0 He\u2019s often at the Spice Shop along with Pepper and is well known and liked in the market.<\/p>\n

What I truly enjoy about these books is the richly detailed Seattle setting and Pepper herself, who is good humored but quirky enough to be an interesting human being.\u00a0 She ties the books together.\u00a0 If I wasn\u2019t as taken with the mystery part of this novel in this outing, I am still smitten with Pepper and her spice shop.\u00a0 Oh, and just about every culinary use for lavender is covered here \u2013 you\u2019ll probably have a craving when you finish the book.\u00a0\u00a0— Robin Agnew<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spice Shop #9 I enjoy all my meetups with Pepper Reece at her charming Seattle Spice Shop.\u00a0 The books are set in the iconic Pike Place Market, and Pepper is very much an active part of the market community.\u00a0 Many of the books have taken place in and around the Market, but in this one, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1057,328,2198,2197,1265,1269,1276,1268,143],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-cozy","tag-lavender","tag-lavender-lies-bleeding","tag-leslie-budewitz","tag-pepper-reece","tag-robin-agnew","tag-seattle-pike-place-market","tag-seventh-street-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}