The Body in the Bouillon Contributor(s): Page, Katherine Hall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380718960 ISBN-13: 9780380718962 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: "Only the best people go to Hubbard House to die". So Faith Sibley Fairchild, gourmet caterer-turned-amateur sleuth, is told as she begins to investigate some mysterious doings at a retirement community near the village of Aleford, Massachusetts, where her husband is the local minister. And die they do--in Faith's bouillon, even in her bed. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Women |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Faith Fairchild Mysteries |
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 4.25" W x 6.8" (0.32 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: Murder Served Piping Hot Minister's wife, sometime sleuth, and culinary artist Faith Sibley Fairchild is intrigued by rumors of mysterious doings at Hubbard House -- an elegant, secluded retirement home for the well-heeled Yankees of Aleford, Massachusetts. Determined to do some surreptitious snooping, she joins the pricey retreat's flu-depleted kitchen staff, only to witness an aging resident collapse face-first into a bowl of Faith's hot and savory bouillon. But it isn't until a blackmailing drug dealer turns up dead in Faith's bedroom that the amateur investigator realizes that Murder not only happens at Hubbard, it's the specialty of the house And Faith's own demise might very well be the next item on the menu. |
Contributor Bio(s): Page, Katherine Hall: - 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. |