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    The Body in the Boudoir: A Faith Fairchild Mystery

    By Katherine Hall Page

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    Massachusetts minister’s wife, caterer, and sometime amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild returns in The Body in the Boudoir, the twentieth installment in the Agatha Award-winning mystery series by Katherine Hall Page that provides mystery, heart, wit, suspense, and mouthwatering recipes aplenty.

    Page turns back the clock this time to 1990, as a young Faith Sibley prepares to wed the love of her life, Thomas Fairchild…if she can survive a malefactor who’s trying to disrupt the ceremony by doing away with the bride. Fans of cozy culinary mysteries, like the bestselling Goldy Schultz novels of Diane Mott Davidson, will adore the tasty mayhem Katherine Hall Page cooks up in her Boudoir.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9780062065490
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    Katherine Hall Page

    Katherine Hall Page is the author of twenty-five 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.

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    • 4/5
      The current novel in the Faith Fairchild series, we go back in time and learn how Tom and Faith met, courted and married. A quick read with great description of the food and great restraurants of New York City, and naturally a murder for Faith to solve. 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.
    • 3/5
      In the twentieth installment of the Faith Fairchild Mystery series we find out how the heroine met and married her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild. It’s 1990 and Faith Sibley is the owner of an up and coming catering company in New York City. The daughter (and grand-daughter) of a preacher, she has sworn to leave parish life behind for good. While catering a wedding, Faith meets Tom and it’s love at first sight for both of them.A whirl wind romance leads to wedding plans for the happy couple. However it’s not all flowers and gift registries. As the planning progress, the mysteries unfold. Faith’s new employee Francesca has a secret. Her sister Hope is experiencing strange phone calls and trouble with clients at her high powered job on Wall Street. While visits her Uncle’s Long Island estate where the wedding will take place a pile of falling bricks narrowly misses Faith. And then there is the body in the boudoir.All of these pieces should work together to tell us a love story speckled with mystery and intrigue. But for me it just never comes together. I enjoyed learning about Faith and her family. They’re funny and quirky and I remember them from other books. Faith is spunky and smart and I can see how the 1990’s version has grown into the character who I like traveling and solving mysteries with. And I could feel the chemistry between Faith and Tom that is evident in the other books in the series that I’ve read. The love story was worked for me. The mystery did not. There are sub plots (Francesca and Hope) that have little relevance to the rest of the story, and I don’t think they added anything entertaining or important. And if I’m honest, it feels like the body in the boudoir who was the victim in this story was only included because we expect Faith to solve a murder.Overall I’m disappointed with this offering. I haven’t read the other 19 in the series, but the few that I have were much more entertaining. If you’re a fan I say to go ahead and give it a read for the family story. If you’re new to Faith Fairchild Mysteries, I recommend choosing another title. The Body in the Ivy and The Body in the Gazebo are two that I enjoyed.
    • 3/5
      Not the best entry in the Faith Fairchild series, but a good, solid mystery. This one takes us back in time when Faith and her husband are planning their wedding. New characters and more information about familiar characters are featured.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Faith is happily running her catering business in New York when she is swept off her feet by a handsome stranger at a wedding. For both Tom and Faith, it's love at first sight. Their romance, engagement and wedding plans are progressing smoothly except that someone is trying to murder Faith. Along the way Faith must help a friend find a man from her family's past; help her sister, Hope, find out who is trying to sabotage her career; and help another friend start a restaurant.Review: This is a flash-back brought on by an anniversary trip. It also opens the door for another prequel about Faith's life in New York. This was fun to read with a few twists, although the two side mysteries were easily predicted.
    • 5/5
      The latest book in this marvelous series takes readers back to the days when our heroine, Faith Fairchild, was Faith Sibley – and had not yet met the minister who would become her husband and change her life. Faith is living in New York City and running a catering business. It’s her job that puts her in contact with Tom Fairchild and their whirlwind courtship takes them to the family home where she will be married. And then there’s a murder. That’s the main mystery in The Body in the Boudoir. But Faith has two other mysteries to solve – one involving one of her employees, who appears to have a not-so-savory secret. And Faith’s sister Hope’s high-powered career appears to be the target of an unknown saboteur who’s trying to steal her clients. For long-time series fans (I’m one), The Body in the Boudoir is a welcome prequel – filling in the gaps in Faith’s back story. My only complaint is that one of the secondary mysteries is solved through total coincidence. Call me a mystery purist, but that resolution was a bit too convenient. That’s not a big deal, though. Katherine Hall Page knows how to create great characters and her writing is as smooth as it gets.
    • 3/5
      Katherine Hall Page writes the Faith Fairchild series, combining mystery with food. Her 20th book and the first one I have read is The Body in the Boudoir, which begins with Faith and her husband, Reverend Tom, on a plane heading to Italy to visit a friend.We flashback to Faith and Tom's first meeting, as Faith's company, Have Faith, is catering a wedding, where she meets the handsome and charming Tom. They flirt, they dance, she finds out he is the officiant at the wedding. Faith and her sister Hope have grown up in a religious family, as their father is a pastor at a large church in Manhattan, and Faith is not interested in becoming a pastor's wife.But life is funny that way, and Faith and Tom fall quickly in love. Tom proposes on the back of a beautiful vintage watch, and soon Faith is planning a wedding. She wishes to marry at her Uncle Sky's gorgeous mansion on Long Island, and when things start to go wrong- she is almost hit by falling debris, someone tries to push her onto the subway tracks, the titular body found in the boudoir- Faith does not change her wedding plans.Faith is an amateur sleuth and she becomes enmeshed in one of her new employee's quest to find an American soldier who spent time in Italy with the employee's family during WWII. Is this the reason that these accidents have befallen Faith?The murder takes place almost halfway through the book, and when the killer is finally revealed, I found it slightly implausible. If Faith is supposed to have such good instincts, how did this person fly under the radar for so long? It was an issue for me.Faith also helped her sister try to find out who was sabotaging her at her finance job, but this was a secondary mystery, although the outcome was more realistic in my view.I liked two things in particular about this novel: the New York setting and the catering. I live in New York, on the Upper East Side, and I really enjoyed how Page integrated the setting within the story.I also have a background in restaurants, so I found the catering parts of the book very interesting. Page gives some recipes from the story in the back of the book, and there are some I want to try, including this Veggie Mac & Cheese, which can be found on her website.
    • 3/5
      The story was good. The author is a good story teller. The character who is the murderer did not make sense to me.
    • 4/5
      This series has become a favorite over the past few years, although I've read it in a rather piece-meal fashion. This prequel to the series was published in 2012, making this the 20th in the series!As Faith Fairchild, the preacher's wife with her own catering business, settles down for a long overseas flight to Europe where she and hubby Tom will celebrate their 10th anniversary, she daydreams about how they met, about their courtship, and about (of course) the mysterious murder, i.e., the Body in the Boudoir discovered just before the wedding. It's a well-written tale, and fills in a lot of gaps in the background of this relationship we've enjoyed throughout the series. For fans of the series, it will be a welcome addition. For newcomers, it's an excellent introduction to an amateur sleuth who provides us with not just good mystery solving, but excellent and yummy ideas and recipes she serves up in her catering business "Have Faith."There were a few plot elements that seemed a bit contrived, and it seemed to take forever for the body (and mystery) to appear, but all in all, it's a good read and has me hungry to find some more in the series (there are now 20 of them!). After all, the holidays are coming, and who couldn't use some good party ideas?Why did I read this book now? It's been sitting on the bedside table too long.
    • 4/5
      Faith Fairchild fans will devour this book for the details it gives about how Tom and Faith met, courted and married. The setting in New York City and Page's descriptions of restaurants and the like is exquisite. (I did wonder how a caterer and a minister could afford to eat at so many expensive restaurants!) A few recipes are included at the end of the book, and a murder is naturally included for Faith to solve. An optional read for those not into this series, but not to be missed for series devotees.