Books by Katherine Hall Page and Complete Book Reviews
Katherine Hall Page, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-312-05392-5
In Page's unengaging second novel ( The Body in the Belfry ) Faith Fairchild spends an August vacation on Sanpere Island, Maine, with her two-year-old son while her minister husband goes on a religious retreat. At an auction, Faith buys a quilt made
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Katherine Hall Page. Morrow, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-243956-7
Agatha-winner Page’s 24th Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2016’s Body in the Wardrobe) is a cracking good traditional manor house mystery. Faith isn’t enthusiastic about leaving her family for three days to cater the birthday celebration of legendary
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Katherine Hall Page. Morrow, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-243955-0
In Agatha-winner Page’s agreeable 23rd Faith Fairchild mystery, lawyer Sophie Maxwell joins her new husband, PI Will Maxwell, whom she met in Maine in 2015’s The Body in the Birches, in Savannah, Ga., his hometown. In a scene reminiscent of Rebecca,
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Katherine Hall Page. Morrow, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-231082-8
Set on Sanpere, a resort island off the Maine coast, Page’s winning 22nd Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2013’s The Body in the Piazza) centers on who will inherit the Birches, a summer “cottage” built in the late 19th century by Josiah and Eleanor...
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Katherine Hall Page. Morrow, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-231079-8
This story collection offers a tasty introduction to an Agatha Award–winner Page’s popular mystery series that started with 1990’s The Body in the Belfry. Caterer Faith Fairchild, the New England minister’s wife and accidental sleuth who stumbles...
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Katherine Hall Page. Morrow, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-206550-6
Page’s delightful 21st Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2012’s The Body in the Boudoir) takes the Aleford, Mass., caterer and her husband, the Rev. Thomas Fairchild, to Italy to celebrate a special anniversary—and to attend the cooking school of...
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Katherine Hall Page. Morrow, $23.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-206548-3
Set in 1990 New York City, Agatha-winner Page’s satisfying 20th Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2011’s The Body in the Gazebo) flashbacks to the whirlwind romance that led to Faith Sibley’s engagement to the Rev. Tom Fairchild. Despite the carefully...
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Katherine Hall Page, Morrow, $23.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-147426-2
Two puzzles tax Faith Fairchild in Agatha-winner Page's genial 19th mystery featuring the Aleford, Mass., caterer and amateur sleuth (after 2009's The Body in the Sleigh). When an audit finds more than $10,000 missing from the minister's...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author HarperTrophy $3.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-380-78032-7
Rather mild in the suspense department but impressive in its characterizations, Page's mystery centers on three Nancy Drew wannabes who end up-a bit too coincidentally-as roommates at a boarding school outside of Boston. The only new eighth graders,
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Katherine Hall Page, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14573-6
The cozy village of Alesford, Mass., may seem an unlikely spot for murder, but such crimes gravitate toward Faith Fairchild, the local minister's wife and self-employed caterer. In her seventh case (after The Body in the Kelp), the sleuthing mother...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-312-11470-1
Featuring recipes, quilting lore and murder, Page's sixth entry in the Faith Fairchild series (after The Body in the Cast) centers around the Massachusetts housewife and caterer's next-door neighbor, occasional employee and friend, Pix Miller. Early
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Katherine Hall Page, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-08148-5
The latest engrossing adventure of Faith Fairchild--a young wife and mother and former Manhattan caterer--is set in Lyons, France. Faith, four months pregnant, her husband Tom, a minister who is finishing research for his dissertation, and their...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-312-06309-2
In Page's third Aleford, Mass., mystery (after The Body in the Kelp ), young minister's wife Faith Fairchild, formerly a trendy New York gourmet caterer, scatters upscale brand names like confetti while acting as an amateur investigator. Asked to...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-312-09755-4
Faith Fairchild, caterer and minister's wife in Aleford, Mass., rebounds from her last case, The Body in the Vestibule , as a crew filming a remake of The Scarlet Letter arrives in town while a fierce local election is at stake. Happily, Faith lands
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Katherine Hall Page, Author . Morrow $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-380-97843-4
Despite three brutal murders and some ugly racial prejudice in this 12th mystery to feature amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild, Agatha Award–winner Page (The Body in the Belfry, etc.) keeps the tone light as her heroine reflects wittily on the...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-03798-7
Page's first novel lacks professional polish and a likable heroine, flaws not compensated for by vivid evocations of a New England autumn in Aleford, Mass. This is home to Faith Fairchild, a native New Yorker, now the wife of the town minister, Tom,
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Katherine Hall Page, Author Simon Pulse $6.99 (166p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0903-3
Members of Club Meds are the kids who visit the nurse's office to get their prescribed doses of medication in this poignant and funny coming-of-age novel from veteran author Page (the Faith Fairchild mysteries). Narrator Jack Sutton has been a...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-15748-7
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Fifth Avenue windows decorated for the season, holiday parties, Christmas shopping--and some blackmail and murder thrown in to spice things up. This prequel to an Agatha Award-winning series (The Body in the
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Katherine Hall Page, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-15747-0
Graced with recipes from amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild's cookbook-in-progress, and inspired by the real-life burglary of the author's home, this ninth spirited entry continues Page's popular series (The Body in the Fjord, 1997) about the Aleford,...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-14574-3
Page's Massachusetts caterer and sleuth Faith Fairchild (Body in the Bog, 1996) steps aside in this leisurely paced eighth tale to let her friend Pix Miller take center stage. Pix agrees to join a tour group in Norway with her mother after learning...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author Avon Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-72079-8
Former Manhattan caterer Faith Fairchild and her family find mystery in Lyons, France in this engrossing adventure from Page's charming series. (Sept.)
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Katherine Hall Page, Author . Morrow $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-147425-5
In Agatha-winner Page's delightful 18th Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2008's The Body in the Gallery
), Faith and her family get away to their cottage on Sanpere Island in Maine's Penobscot Bay for the Christmas season. Tranquility...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author . Morrow $23.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-06-076367-1
Is it art or murder? In Page's savory 17th Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2006's The Body in the Ivy
), the caterer/chef uncovers sinister doings at the Ganley Museum of Art in Aleford, Mass. When Faith's friend Patsy Avery, the...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author . Morrow $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-076365-7
Agatha Award–winner Page pays clever homage to Christie's Ten Little Indians
in the 16th outing of her Faith Fairchild series, which finds the amateur sleuth trapped on a remote New England island with a group of imperiled weekend guests.
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Katherine Hall Page, Author . Morrow $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-052530-9
Agatha-winner Page's 15th Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2004's The Body in the Attic
) offers the usual tantalizing mix—an attractive setting, great characters, good food and murder most foul. Faith, an upscale caterer, and Tom, her...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author . Morrow $23.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-06-052529-3
In Agatha-winner Page's 14th warmhearted entry in her Faith Fairchild series (after 2003's The Body in the Lighthouse
), the upscale caterer, amateur sleuth and born-and-bred New Yorker is, to her surprise, reluctant to leave suburban...
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Katherine Hall Page, Author . Morrow $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-380-97844-1
Developers and environmentalists do battle over a deserted lighthouse in Page's 13th absorbing "body" book (after 2002's The Body in the Bonfire) to feature Faith Fairchild, caterer, sometime sleuth and mother of two small children....
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Katherine Hall Page. Morrow, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-286325-6
In Agatha winner Page’s tantalizing 25th Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2017’s The Body in the Casket), plans for a relaxing summer on Maine’s Sanpere Island quickly go awry when caterer Faith and friend Sophie Maxwell find the body of an unknown...
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Katherine Hall Page. Morrow, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-325253-0
Page’s long-running cozy series featuring caterer and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild begins to show its age in this humdrum entry (after 2019’s The Body in the Wake). Thanks to an advance warning from her sister that Covid-19 lockdowns are imminent,
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