The Body in the Snowdrift: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries)
Faith Fairchild’s family ski reunion is interrupted by a murder in the snow, forcing her into another investigation in a closed winter setting.
Work Information
A ski-week reunion becomes a murder mystery in the snow.
At a family ski resort, Faith Fairchild must deal with both human tensions and a murder in a closed winter setting. The novel balances cozy familiarity with a sharp sense of isolation.
Book Information
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Published
- 2005-04-26
- Pages
- 256 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 2.26 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780060525309
- ISBN-10
- 0060525304
- Price
- 5135 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Women Sleuths
Award-winning author Katherine Hall Page is one of the reigning queens of the traditional mystery. Now, in this fifteenth mystery in her much-beloved Faith Fairchild series, she takes us to the blustery slopes of a Vermont ski resort, where murder makes an unwelcome appearance at the Fairchild family reunion. When caterer Faith Fairchild learns of her father-in-law’s plan to celebrate his seventieth birthday by treating his children, their spouses, and his grandchildren to a weeklong stay at the Pine Slopes resort, her reaction is mixed. Yes, she likes to ski and yes, she loves the kin of her husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, but both in smaller and shorter doses. The Fairchilds have been coming to the ski area since Tom and his siblings were toddlers and are old friends of the owners, the Staffords. All starts well as the family settles into neighboring condos, until Faith discovers a body on one of the cross-country trails -- the apparent victim of a heart attack. Then Pine Slopes' star chef vanishes without a trace. One catastrophe follows another: a malicious prank at the sports center, a break-in at the Fairchild condo, and one of the chairlifts is sabotaged. Who is the mysterious woman living in the "gingerbread cottage" deep in the woods? And what are adolescents Ophelia Stafford and Faith's nephew Scott -- filled with angst and anger -- up to? Family secrets abound and family dynamics explode. Then one morning skiers arrive and are horror-stricken to find the slopes covered with patches of red snow, the result of a body falling, or being pushed, into the water supply for the snow-making guns. Faith must get to the bottom of the crime spree if she wants to salvage the reunion, prevent the closing of Pine Slopes -- and save her own life.
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.
Reviews
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faith in the snow
The Fairchild clan gathers together at a ski resort to celebrate the 70th birthday of their father and grandfather. But disasters and murders as well as skis and snowboards cause Faith to cook up a storm and search out the offenders as well as cope with a family all confined together. Suspenseful and surprising.
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Five Stars
Another good Book, with this Series improving with each successive Story....
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Spending time in the world of Faith Fairchild is like taking a trip to the other side of the ...
She's a classy writer. Spending time in the world of Faith Fairchild is like taking a trip to the other side of the country. Interesting and relaxing. It is necessary to suspend one's disbelief that an upscale caterer could find so many bodies and solve so many crimes, but the effort is worth it. I really enjoy following the adventures of someone who is happily married and enjoying her role as a mother. Neurotic detectives are tiresome.
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Good story
I've read about 3 of the books in this series and have found pretty much the same thing to be true of all of them. It's an interesting story, well told except for their being too many friends and too many relatives to try to keep up with. Also, the story goes along very well and keeps one turning pages till it comes time for the REVEAL and the EXPLANATION. It is always too long, too complicated and some of it is downright unbelievable. Like WHY did that person do what they did. Not nearly enough believability on some of the WRAP UPS of the story. But, the stories are interesting and I've ordered some more.
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A Good Book
I enjoy reading the Faith Fairchild mysteries, and this one was very good. I found it to be the usual riveting story.
Related Literary Awards
- Agatha Awards Edition 18 (2005) ・Excellence Award