Budewitz, Leslie: - Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and the Northwest in 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.
A past president of Sisters in Crime and a former board member of Mystery Writers of America, she lives and cooks in NW Montana..
Leslie is the winner of three Agatha Awards--2013 Best First Novel for DEATH AL DENTE , the first Food Lovers\' Village mystery; 2011 Best Nonfiction, and 2018 Best Short Story, for All God\'s Sparrows, her first historical fiction.
She also writes moody suspense under the pen name Alicia Beckman.
Budewitz, Leslie: - Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and the Northwest in 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
