To err is cumin

To err is cumin

Leslie Budewitz

Book - 2024

One person's treasure is another's trash . . .Pepper Reece, owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market, wants nothing more than to live a quiet life for a change. But when she finds an envelope stuffed with cash in a ratty old wingback left on the curb, she sets out to track down the owner. Pepper soon concludes that the chair and its stash may belong to young Talia Cook, new in town and nowhere to be seen. Boz Bosworth, an unemployed chef Pepper's tangled with in the past, shows up looking for the young woman, but Pepper refuses to help him search. When Boz is found floating in the Ship Canal, only a few blocks from Talia's apartment, free furniture no longer seems like such a bargain. On the hunt for T...alia, Pepper discovers a web of connections threatening to ensnare her best customer. The more she probes, the harder it gets to tell who's part of an unsavory scheme of corruption--and who might be the next victim. Dogged by a sense of obligation to find the rightful owner of the hidden treasure, she keeps on showing up where she's not wanted, asking probing questions.One mistake, and she could find herself cashing out...--

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Subjects
Women merchants > Fiction.
Spice trade > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Seattle (Wash.) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Published
Hoboken, NJ : Seventh Street Books 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Leslie Budewitz (author)
Physical Description
viii, 226 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781645060857
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Review by Booklist Review

Pepper Reece, owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market (last seen in Between a Wok and a Dead Place, 2023), sees a wingback chair abandoned on the sidewalk and decides to rescue it and have it reupholstered. A man who looks familiar to Pepper protests, saying Talia, the chair's owner, wouldn't discard it. Pepper takes it anyway and discovers the lump in the cushion is an envelope containing $35,000. Pepper reports the money to the police, then tries to find Talia, who seems to have disappeared. Pepper realizes the familiar man is Boz Bosworth, a chef who stole a proprietary spice blend from her. Bosworth appeals to Pepper to help him find Talia. Refusing Bosworth's request to work together, but fearing something has happened to the young woman, Pepper intensifies her search, putting herself in danger. Rich in details of the Seattle area and the Pike Place Market and framed by facts about spices and cooking with them, this cozy, with recipes, will appeal to fans of Joanne Fluke, Ellie Alexander, Jenn McKinlay, and Krista Davis.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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