Spice Shop Mystery Books in Order
Spice Shop Mystery by Leslie Ann Budewitz contains 9 books, published between 2015 and 2025. The first book is Assault and Pepper (2015) and the newest is Lavender Lies Bleeding (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 2015–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,680 in 6 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 28–42 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,680 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Spice Shop Mystery is a culinary cozy mystery series by Leslie Ann Budewitz, set in Seattle. Recorded subjects name women merchants, restaurants, murder and amateur sleuths. Nine books run from Assault and Pepper (2015) to Lavender Lies Bleeding (2025), and spices name most of the titles between: Guilty as Cinnamon, Killing Thyme, Chai Another Day, The Solace of Bay Leaves, Peppermint Barked and To Err is Cumin. The six volumes with a recorded length run to a median of 288 pages.
How many Spice Shop Mystery books are there?
Spice Shop Mystery has 9 books, released between 2015 and 2025.
Spice Shop Mystery Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Spice Shop Mystery books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Assault and Pepper2015 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420153041/4
- 2Guilty as Cinnamon2015 · 287 pages · confirmed 1/420152871/4
- 3Killing Thyme2016 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420162881/4
- 4Chai Another Day2019 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420192401/4
- 5The Solace of Bay Leaves2020 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/420202481/4
- 6Peppermint Barked2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 7Between a Wok and a Dead Place2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 8To Err is Cumin2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 9Lavender Lies Bleeding2025 · 313 pages · confirmed 1/420253131/4
Is there a chronological order for Spice Shop Mystery?
No separate chronological order is on record for Spice Shop Mystery, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.
Do you have to read Spice Shop Mystery books in order?
You should read the Spice Shop Mystery books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Spice Shop Mystery book also stands alone.
Where to start with Spice Shop Mystery
Start with Assault and Pepper (2015), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Spice Shop Mystery book?
Lavender Lies Bleeding (2025) is the newest Spice Shop Mystery book released so far.
Is there a new Spice Shop Mystery book coming?
No next Spice Shop Mystery book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Spice Shop Mystery at a glance
- Still running
- Spice Shop Mystery is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Spice Shop Mystery books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,680 pages across the 6 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Spice Shop Mystery books, 5 of 9, were published in the 2020s.
What the Spice Shop Mystery books are about
4 of the 9 Spice Shop Mystery books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: seattle (wash.) is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Seattle (Wash.) 3 of 4 books
- Crime 2 of 4 books
- Investigation 2 of 4 books
- Murder 2 of 4 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 4 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 2 of 4 books
- Women merchants 2 of 4 books
- American literature 1 of 4 books
- Mystery & detective, amateur sleuth 1 of 4 books
- Mystery & detective, cozy, culinary 1 of 4 books
- Restaurants 1 of 4 books
More books by Leslie Ann Budewitz
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
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Other series by Leslie Ann Budewitz
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.