The Body in the Basement - Hardcover

Katherine Hall Page

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709090390 ISBN 13: 9780709090397

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

With the Fairchilds building a summer cottage on Maine's Sanpere Island, their next-door neighbor, Pix Miller, heads off to check on the building's progress. But on visiting the cottage, our heroine finds far more than just the building site and to her horror, discovers the dead body of a local handyman, wrapped in a very valuable antique quilt! Sharing her friend Faith's inquisitive nature, Pix resolves to unravel the mystery and restore Sanpere's shattered peace. But will the determined Ms. Miller ever discover the truth? Or by digging too deeply, will she soon be arranging another burial - her own!

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About the Author

Katherine Hall Page is the successful author of eleven mystery novels featuring Faith Fairchild, the first of which, The Body in the Belfry, was awarded the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery. Page also won an Agatha for her short story "The Would-Be Widower" and currently lives in Massachusetts with her husband and son.

From Kirkus Reviews

A nasty surprise awaits Faith Fairchild's old friend Pix Miller when she goes to check on the construction of Faith's new summer house on Maine's Sanpere Island: There's a body carefully wrapped in a quilt hidden in the basement. Even though the contractor would soon have covered the corpse of itinerant restorer Mitchell Pierce in cement with no one being the wiser, still, as Pix's elderly mother sagely remarks, ``It's not the way one likes to start a new house.'' (Faith's own reaction: ``It'll be weeks before they let us continue.'') And the trouble on Sanpere has just begun: Pix's daughter Samantha finds three decapitated mice at her summer camp, a display of plastic bats with painted blood, and a gull with its throat slit. Sounds like decorator Valerie Atherton's incorrigible teen Duncan Cowley. But would Duncan really kill Mitch Pierce--or local celebrity quilter Adelaide Bainbridge, who's found wrapped in another quilt? Or are the crimes connected instead, as Pix suspects, to a ring of antiques forgers that may just include the off-island stranger who'd been so attentive to Addie? Though Pix does duty for barely-there Faith (The Body in the Cast, 1993, etc.), the mixture is otherwise familiar. Unremittingly nice suspects and down-east recipes establish a family-values backdrop for a killer who faces the need to kill Pix by fretting: ``Our parents used to play bridge together.'' -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0709090390
• ISBN 13: 9780709090397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224