Bitterroot Lake

The Solace of Bay Leaves

  Chai Another Day

  Killing Thyme

  Guilty as Cinnamon

  Assault and Pepper

  Nonfiction

  Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure

  AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

  Alicia Beckman delighted in living in Seattle as a college student and young lawyer, but is happiest back home in her native Montana, where she lives with her husband, a musician and doctor of natural medicine, and their full-figured gray tuxedo cat. As Leslie Budewitz, she’s the bestselling author of the Seattle Spice Shop and Food Lovers’ Village mysteries. A three-time Agatha Award winner, for Best Short Story (2018), Best First Novel (2013), and Best Nonfiction (2011), she is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a current board member of Mystery Writers of America.

  This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, organizations, places, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real or actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2021 by Leslie Ann Budewitz

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.

  Crooked Lane Books and its logo are trademarks of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.

  Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication data available upon request.

  ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-64385-580-6

  ISBN (ebook): 978-1-64385-581-3

  Cover design by Nicole Lecht

  Map by Francesca Droll/Abacus Graphics, LLC

  Printed in the United States.

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  First Edition: April 2021

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