Between A Wok And A Dead Place by Leslie Budewitz

Between A Wok And A Dead Place by Leslie Budewitz

Pepper Reece, owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market, loves a good festival, especially one that serves up tasty treats. So what could be more fun than a food walk in the city's Chinatown International District, celebrating the Lunar New Year, 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 twisty-turny basement? Why was the pharmacy boarded up - and why are the owners so reluctant to talk? With the discovery of a box of letters written in Chinese - a box that later goes missing - Pepper and her friends find themselves asking new questions and facing more brick walls. Then questions arise about Roxanne herself, and her relationship to Pepper's boyfriend Nate, away fishing in Alaska. Between worrying about Nate, Roxanne, and her parents' pending departure, while struggling to hire new 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 hundred years. 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?

Leslie Budewitz's two cozy mystery series, the Spice Shop Mysteries, set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, set in NW Montana, combine her love of food, excellent mysteries, and the Northwest. Leslie has won three Agatha Awards: Best First Novel in 2013 for DEATH AL DENTE, the first Food Lovers' Village mystery; Best Nonfiction in 2011; and Best Short Story in 2018 for All God's Sparrows, her first work of historical fiction. Her work has also been nominated for Derringer, Anthony, and Macavity awards, and she has won or been nominated for them. She lives and cooks in NW Montana, where she is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a current board member of Mystery Writers of America.

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ISBN 13	9781645060611
ISBN 10	1645060616
Title	Between A Wok And A Dead Place
Author	Leslie Budewitz
Series	Spice Shop Mystery Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Prometheus Books
Year published	2023-07-27
Number of pages	236
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.