Leslie Budewitz With a Cup of Tea Nov 2022
Channel: This House of Books
Date: 2022-11-06

One of the ironies about Blind Faith is that it is the first novel Leslie Budewitz has placed in Billings, the community where she was born and grew up, but she cannot use her own name on the cover.
Alicia Beckman (pen name of Leslie Budewitz) talks about her latest novel. In discussing her need for a pen name, a question arises about the fundamental difference between Budewitz's lighter "cozy" mysteries and her darker "suspense" mysteries. Budewitz, a trained attorney who took up mystery writing and who has won numerous "Agatha" awards for her books, provides a deep and utterly fascinating explanation.