The Body in the Cast [Import] [Hardcover]

Katherine Hall Page (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd (July 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0709083300
• ISBN-13: 978-0709083306
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,823,352 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.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "and all the world's a stage....", December 12, 1997

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

The fine upstanding folk of Alesford, Massachusetts suddenly find themselves very busy. Their intense but usually very polite town politics turns nasty with the entry of one Alden Spaulding into the race. Concerned townsfolk convince Alden's half-sister to run in opposition and now it appears that dirty tricks will sully Aleford's most interesting spectator sport.

While these goings on might be enough for most people, not for Alesford. Directing legend, Max Reed has picked the village for a re-make of Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter" as adapted by himself, and Faith Fairchild; minister's wife, mother of two, gourmet cook, and owner/operator of the catering service Have Faith finds herself feeding cast and crew. Intrigue, both internal and external, make life interesting until someone decides to toss in a bit of bad food... and then... poison.

Faith has to contend with a double dose of death, as first a member of the movie crew is poisoned from a cup she prepared, and then when she trips over Aleford's obnoxious candidate, face-down on the floor with bashed-in head. Certainly a string of bad luck -- two murders in one week, and Faith up close and personal with both!

Two deaths, two killers -- or one? Faith and the police have work to do. Political innuendos, missing suspects, freaked out movie stars, jealous former classmates, all swirl together to make it obvious that life and the silver screen are not so different as we might wish.

5.0 out of 5 stars Body in the Cast, September 22, 2010

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

Have read all the Faith Fairchild mysteries..love them. Went to Amazon to get the ones I missed. Very fast read and just fun for the mind

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Best book in this weak series, May 17, 2009

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Peabody823 (IL USA) - See all my reviews

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

Faith actually liked her children this time, which was good, and I just found it more interesting and to the point this time.

Note: I've read this entire series up to The Body in the Attic: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries), and the best rating I've given any of them is 2 stars, which is sad and says a lot about the series. I kept reading because it really has potential but it never lives up to it, so save yourself the trouble and agony and try a a different series, such as Carolyn Hart's Death on Demand (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 1) series, most of which are fun and enjoyable, or stop after The Body in the Cast: A Faith Fairchild Mystery, which was probably the best of the series. That's my recommendation, anyway.