LESLIE BUDEWITZ: Happy Birthday to Pepper Reece, the star of my Spice Shop mysteries! I’ve long known her birthday is June 2 — by no small coincidence, the birthday of my BFF. Why that day? Why not? Series readers tell me how much they like Pepper, for her smarts, her loyalty, and her determination to use her skills to make the world a better place, by solving crime — and by serving
