Budewitz, Leslie: - Leslie Budewitz tells stories about womens lives, seasoned with friendship, food, a dash of history, and a heaping spoonful of mystery. She writes the Spice Shop mysteries set in Seattles Pike Place Market, as well as the Food Lovers Village mysteries and historical short fiction set in her native Montana. As Alicia Beckman, she writes moody suspense. A three-time Agatha Award winner--2013 Best First Novel for DEATH AL DENTE, the first Food Lovers Village mystery; 2011 Best Nonfiction, and 2018 Best Short Story, for All Gods Sparrows, her first historical fiction--she is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a former board member of Mystery Writers of America. Leslie lives and cooks in NW Montana.