National Peppermint Bark Day? Who decides these commemorative days? Who cares? We do! Our friend-of-the-shop mystery author Leslie Budewitz is celebrating with her own recipe for Peppermint Bark. Two kinds of chocolate and two kinds of peppermint—easy, yummy, and always in season, no matter what the day!

Leslie’s Spice Shop mysteries are set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, where her sweet-and-spicy main character, Pepper Reece, runs a spice shop and solves crime. In the latest, Peppermint Barked, Pepper investigates when a young woman working the Christmas rush in her friend Vinny’s wine shop is brutally attacked, on the busiest shopping day of the year. (Available in paperback, ebook, and audio, from booksellers across the country.)

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