![]() ![]() Then the law firm where she’d worked imploded in scandal and took her job with it. “She moved out and bought an unfinished loft in a century-old downtown warehouse. ![]() “After thirteen years of marriage, she discovered her police officer husband and the meter maid in a back booth in a posh new restaurant practically plugging each other’s meters,” she says. In ASSAULT AND PEPPER, Pepper Reece is the proud new owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market, and by Budewitz’s own description, someone who “totally does not mind being the poster child for the cliché, life begins at forty.” “One challenge of starting a new series-and a big part of the fun-is populating the story and getting to know the characters,” she says. In them, she jots ideas for recipes and stories-both of which are passions she’s combined to write cozy mysteries, such as her latest, ASSAULT AND PEPPER, the first in her new Spice Shop series. Harriet the Spy inspired Budewitz to use the notebooks, a habit still, but she concedes they’re more of a journal than a secret spy record. Thankfully, her parents were understanding, and to this day, Budewitz’s mother, now eighty-nine, buys her daughter notebooks and pens for Christmas, a loving reminder about the concept of paper. She would scrawl on top of the wood with her crayons, pencils, or whatever she could find. Leslie Budewitz started writing at the age of four-on her father’s desk. ![]()
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