The Body in the Bookcase [Import] [Hardcover]

Katherine Hall Page (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd (October 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0709083327
• ISBN-13: 978-0709083320
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,791,164 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

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good story marred by a contrived ending, January 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Body in the Bookcase (Hardcover)

Until the end, this was an entertaining book -combining suburban break-ins, the antique business and the death of a good friend. KHP's descriptions of New England life are right on target, and Faith Fairchild is the kind of amateur sleuth who can use the little coincidences of life to find a killer.

Two things bothered me: the revelation of the 'master criminal' and the capture was just hollow, but more distressing was the fact that Faith really didn't get motivated to work on the burglaries until she was a victim- after her friend died. She seems to spend more time agonizing over the inordinate amount of silver and jewelry stolen from her than grieving for her friend.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Annoying and unrealistic, January 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Body in the Bookcase (Hardcover)

In the latest Faith Fairchild adventure, her home is robbed along with several others in the area, including one where an old woman died. Faith spends the entire story obsessing over her lost treasures and trying to get them back. Her job and family take a back seat. While having a home robbed is not pleasant, at least no one was hurt. I felt like telling her to get over it already. This book lacks the cozy feeling the others in the series have, and the ending is not satisfying because no motive is presented. This was a disappointment.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining., March 17, 2003

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MLPlayfair (Ravenna, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Body in the Bookcase: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

THE BODY IN THE BOOKCASE is fun. It's very reminiscent of the Diana Mott Davidson culinary mysteries -- and not just because of the recipes. The style is very similar. I'm not sure which number this is in the Faith Fairchild series, but it's copyrighted 1998. And it's my first. It's about the theft of antiques, and one dead body leads to another as our protagonist tries to recover some of her stolen property. The characters are fun and believable. The author creates no sense of place at all, geographically, but does create a sense of community. Not the most satisfying mystery I've ever read, but entertaining.

I'm in possesion of two different versions of this book. To help you with your purchasing decision, here's a comparison: One has a green cover with a gold letter opener. This is an Avon Twilight book, first printed in 1999. At the end it has excerpts of about two pages each from five other mystery series. The other is an Avon Book, first printed March 2001. It has a gray cover with red and black letters. It has larger print (but not "large print"), so the book is thicker. It has excerpts of about two pages each from nine other books in this same series.