The Body in the Gallery: A Faith Fairchild Mystery: 17 (Faith Fairchild Mysteries) - Softcover

Page, Katherine Hall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060763701 ISBN 13: 9780060763701

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2009

Synopsis

Faith's catering business has been slow with the downturn of the economy, so when her friend Patsy Avery proposes that she take over the café at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum, it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And Patsy has an ulterior motive--she discovers that the Romare Bearden piece she lent the museum has been switched with a fake and wants Faith to snoop around to find the culprit.

Life at the museum doesn't stay calm for long and Faith is soon enmeshed in the Ganley's murky past and present as she struggles to make connections among apparently disparate items: the fake Bearden, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers, and a Jane Doe corpse that turns up as an unintended part of an art installation. At home, son Ben, now in the hell known as middle school, becomes involved in a cyberbullying escapade and husband Tom wants his wife to morph into June Cleaver.

Her investigation takes Faith into Boston's art scene and historic Beacon Hill, as well as into the lives behind the façade of the Ganley's very proper board of trustees. She is at her wit's--and almost dead--end, as the killer strikes again, and again.

About this title

Review:

"Entertaining and ingeniously deceptive murder mystery."--Booklist

"Katherine Hall Page's series just gets more sophisticated and graceful...most intriguing yet."--Kate's Mystery Books Newsletter

"Diverting...This is a mystery that will make the reader chuckle while they try to figure out who done it."--The Trenton Times

"This highly entertaining series effectively mixes modern-day moral dilemmas with charm, warmth, and humor."--Booklist

"Satisfying...a mystery to be savored...wonderfully drawn characters and a deliciously paced plot."--Kate's Mystery Books Newsletter

"It sparkles like a yankee pond on a bright autumn day!"--Washington Post Book World

"Faith is a gem."--Globe and Mail (Toronto)

"Intriguing."--Bangor Daily News

"[A]n attractive setting, great characters, good food and murder most foul... A perfect Faith concoction."--Publishers Weekly

"The author writes with grace and gentle wit, expertly weaving all her material together into a satisfying whole."--Denver Post

About the Author:

Katherine Hall Page is the author of twenty-three previous Faith Fairchild mysteries, the first of which received the Agatha Award for best first mystery. The Body in the Snowdrift was honored with the Agatha Award for best novel of 2006. Page also won an Agatha for her short story "The Would-Be Widower." The recipient of the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement, she has been nominated for the Edgar, the Mary Higgins Clark, the Maine Literary, and the Macavity Awards. She lives in Massachusetts and Maine with her husband.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0060763701
• ISBN 13: 9780060763701
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 336