The Body in the Belfry (A Faith Fairchild Mystery) [Mass Market Paperback]

Katherine Hall Page (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: New York: Avon Books # 71328 7th Printing no date; . edition (1995)
• ISBN-10: 0380713284
• ISBN-13: 978-0380713288
• ASIN: B001NRB5QM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,391,637 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katherine Hall Page is the author of seventeen previous Faith Fairchild mysteries, the first of which received the Agatha Award for best first mystery, and recently 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." She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and son.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Murder and Gourmet Cooking in a Boston Suburb., December 31, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Body in the Belfry: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

Page has created an energetic and rather believable heroine in Faith Fairchild, a gourmet chef who marries a clergyman and moves from her hometown of New York City to a small town in New England. She feels like an outsider in her new home, but gets right in the thick of things when she finds a body in the town's most historic building. She is amazed to find that many of the residents are more upset that she rang the old bell than that a person was murdered!

I thought this book was highly entertaining, though I must admit that I spent a good deal of time wondering just which suburb she was supposed to be in, being myself a resident of the area. I would definitely recommend this book as a fabulous New England "cozy" with fun characters, solid writing, and good red herrings. She has written a good number of books in this series (Body in the Belfry being the first), so there is a lot to look forward to when you dive in! Page has also written a few young adult mysteries under the title of Christie and Company, which I have heard are also quite fun and educational for young readers.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars First book of the series, November 7, 2000

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Karen Potts (Lake Jackson, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Body in the Belfry: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is the beginning of a growing list of "Body in the _____" series. Its heroine is Faith Sibley, a native New Yorker who has started a gourmet catering service. She meets and falls in love with Tom Fairchild, a young minister who whisks her away from her beloved home town to a much different life in rural Massachusetts. Faith is trying her best to fit into the role of pastor's wife in a small town where everyone's family goes back several generations and where everyone knows everyone else's business. While taking a walk with her baby son, Benjamin, Faith discovers a dead body in a belfry. The body is that of Cindy Shepherd a young, willful girl who had made plenty of enemies in their small town. The suspects include Cindy's fiance, and several men with whom she had had affairs and was subsequently blackmailing. Faith's curiosity and unofficial investigations eventually lead her and Benjamin into grave danger. This is an interesting and well-written "cozy".

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really fun read!, May 24, 2005

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FunToTeach (North Park, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Body in the Belfry: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

I recommend this book for a really fun read - it's perfect for any vacation. Ms. Page has a wonderful sense of humor and is a fantastic writer! I am looking forward to reading all the other Faith Fairchild mysteries.