July. The height of summer, and a glorious time in these parts. We hope it’s lovely where you are, and that you can make time to relax with a tall glass of something cool—and a good book.

Leslie Budewitz is delighted to announce the publication of BUTTER OFF DEAD on July 7 (Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Random House). The third installment in the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries takes us to the deep mid-winter, and the first annual Food Lovers’ Film Festival.

On Saturday, July 11, from 1-3, Leslie will sign books and talk with readers at Montana Book & Toy Company in Helena.

Leslie and Christine Carbo  will be interviewing each other at Fact & Fiction Books in Missoula on Tuesday, July 14, at 7 p.m. Join these Montana mystery writers for a chat on the writing life, their books, and a few surprises

Christine Carbo  is excited to be heading to New York City for Thriller Fest 2015. When she returns, she’ll be heading to Missoula to Fact & Fiction on July 14th  to meet Leslie Budewitz (see above paragraph) and to Bozeman to the Barnes and Noble for an event/signing at 7 pm on July 15th. If you’re in either area, please stop in.

And for those of you in the Seattle area, she’ll be at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop on July 18th at noon to sign books and chat.

Christine is also thrilled to have THE WILD INSIDE (Atria Books/Simon and Schuster) chosen as an alternate feature selection by the editors at Mystery Guild for the month of July, to have it included in the Chicago Tribune’s roundup of new paperbacks (July 5th) and for it to make Backpacker Magazine’s list of “Modern Novels Set in National Parks!”

Stop by one of these very cool bookstores in our Northwest communities and visit Christine and Leslie!