The Body in the Vestibule: A Faith Fairchild Mystery - Softcover

Page, Katherine Hall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380720795 ISBN 13: 9780380720798

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2001

Synopsis

Satisfying her hunger for epicurean adventure in the French provinces, small town caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild decides to throw the perfect dinner party. But during cleanup after the last guest has departed her gastronomical triumph, she encounters something neither expected nor welcome: a dead body lying in her vestibule. Unfortunately it doesn't help la belle americaine's credibility when the corpse vanishes before the local gendarmes arrive. But Faith realizes that, though the police refuse to take her seriously, a killer just might. And if she doesn't get to the bottom of this fiendish French conundrum, Faith's recent successful feast could end up being her last.

About this title

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.

From Kirkus Reviews

Jaunty Faith Fairchild, minister's wife/former caterer and current cookbook writer/amateur sleuth, accompanies her husband Tom and toddler son Ben to Lyon, France, where Tom is doing research. Ben is making friends at his nursery school, and Faith, as usual, is discovering bodies--this time that of a clochard (homeless wino) in their building dumpster. But when she reports it and the police arrive, the body disappears--and the next day the clochard is back at his usual spot in the street, and the gendarmes are writing off Faith's remarks as the delusions of a pregnant woman. But Faith persists, and soon finds herself receiving anonymous notes, strange phone calls, and being kidnapped from her hairdresser's, then escaping to tie together the disappearance of the clochard with the murder of a prostitute and a series of cat burglaries.... Faith is less breezy away from Alesford, Massachusetts, but she does seem to be eating better. Good French food, wine, and ambience, but the mystery is comme ‡i, comme ‡a. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0380720795
• ISBN 13: 9780380720798
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352