The heart of winter — crisp, cold, and full of surprises.

Here’s what’s new at Montana Women Writers:

LESLIE BUDEWITZ is getting ready for the launch of her new series, the Seattle Spice Shop Mysteries, with ASSAULT and PEPPER, out March 3 from Berkley Prime Crime. (Available for pre-order now at your independent bookseller and all the usual online sources.) If you’d like to catch up with her on her book tour or follow her blog tour, check her website  for her schedule and sign up for her seasonal newsletter. (The website may be down temporarily for a few days for updates, but watch for a new and improved site soon, at http://www.LeslieBudewitz.com!)

Betty Kuffel completed two books recently.

Secrets of Loon Lake is the first of a series of cozy mysteries set in Northern Minnesota lake country in the 1960’s. Betty and her co-author sister Bev completed the first draft between March and July of 2014. Fine tuning and revisions are nearly complete. They will publish on Amazon.

Fatal Feast is a contemporary medical thriller about an aggressive variant of mad cow disease. Terrorists penetrate a high risk research lab in Montana intent on spreading the disease into the world food supply.  She will submit agent queries and if there is no interest, will go with Kindle and Create Space for publication.