After leaving a dicey marriage and losing a corporate job, Pepper Reece has found a new zest for life running a spice and tea shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Then a panhandler shows up dead on the doorstep, a Seattle Spice Shop cup in his hand, and the police arrest one of her staffers for murder. Convinced her reticent employee is innocent, Pepper decides to sniff out some clues. Gut Pepper's nosy ways might make her next on the killer's list. -- provided by publisher.