Happy Spring!

LESLIE BUDEWITZ: Delighted to say I’ll be making my suspense debut this month with BITTERROOT LAKE, written as Alicia Beckman (Crooked Lane Books, April 13, in hardcover, ebook, and audio).

From the cover:
When four women separated by tragedy reunite at a lakeside Montana lodge, murder forces them to confront everything they thought they knew about the terrifying accident that tore them apart, in Agatha Award-winning author Alicia Beckman’s suspense debut.

Twenty-five years ago, during a celebratory weekend at historic Whitetail Lodge, Sarah McCaskill had a vision. A dream. A nightmare. When a young man was killed, Sarah’s guilt over having ignored the warning in her dreams devastated her. Her friendships with her closest friends, and her sister, fell apart as she worked to build a new life in a new city. But she never stopped loving Whitetail Lodge on the shores of Bitterroot Lake.

Now that she’s a young widow, her mother urges her to return to the lodge for healing. But when she arrives, she’s greeted by an old friend–and by news of a murder that’s clearly tied to that tragic day she’ll never forget.

And the dreams are back, too. What dangers are they warning of this time? As Sarah and her friends dig into the history of the lodge and the McCaskill family, they uncover a legacy of secrets and make a discovery that gives a chilling new meaning to the dreams. Now, they can no longer ignore the ominous portents from the past that point to a danger more present than any of them could know.

Read an excerpt and find out where to buy the book on my website. While I miss seeing readers face to face, one advantage of doing book events online is that anyone can join an event hundreds of miles away, so I hope you’ll check out the Events page on my website and find one that calls to you!

And we will connect in person, soon. You can tell me what books you’ve been reading and we’ll laugh and touch and connect. Promise.