Crafts and Life

After leaving a dicey marriage and losing a beloved job in a corporate crash, Pepper Reece has found a new zest for life running a busy spice and tea shop in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Her aromatic creations are the talk of the town, and everyone stops by for a cup of her refreshing spice tea, even other shopkeepers and Market regulars. But when a panhandler named Doc shows up dead on the store’s doorstep, a Seattle Spice Shop cup in his hand, the local gossip gets too hot for Pepper to handle—especially after the police arrest one of Pepper’s staffers, Tory Finch, for murder.

Tory seems to know why she’s a suspect, but she refuses to do anything to curry favor with the cops. Convinced her reticent employee is innocent, Pepper takes it on herself to sniff out some clues. Only, if she’s not careful, Pepper’s nosy ways might make her next on the killer’s list…

Almost a year ago Pepper Reece lost her job when the company went under, before that she had found her husband cheating on her, so she decided on a completely new start.  She bought the Seattle Spice Shop and a loft apartment, everything seems to be going well until a new homeless man (Doc) manages to upset one of the regular homeless people (Sam), even that wouldn't have been too bad if Pepper hadn't seen Doc hassling Tory, one of Pepper's staff.

A couple of days after this Pepper is arriving to open up when she finds Doc in the doorway of her shop, however he isn't sleeping but dead and a Seattle Spice Shop takeout cup is by him.  Soon the police are there and before too many days are through the Detectives arrest one of Pepper's staff, she doesn't believe they could ever be guilty of harming anyone and so against her ex's wishes but with the back up of friends she starts looking into who would want Doc dead.