The Body in the Snowdrift [Import] [Hardcover]

Katherine Hall Page (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd (June 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0709080530
• ISBN-13: 978-0709080534
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Body in the Snowdrift, November 27, 2005

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MysteryLover (Sanpere Island, ME) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Body in the Snowdrift: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries) (Hardcover)

I have never written a review to Amazon before, but after reading the two previous reviews, I had to say something. Katherine Hall Page's books just keep getting better and better. I especially enjoyed the family dynamics in this one and no, I did not guess whodunit. I'm looking forward to whatever she cooks up next.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A mixed bag, May 14, 2005

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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 Snowdrift: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Faith Fairchild is not looking forward to the family reunion which her father-in-law has planned at a ski resort in order to celebrate his birthday. As she tells her friends, she likes the Fairchilds but in "small doses". When she and her family arrive, things go downhill fast, as Faith discovers a dead body on the ski slopes. Tensions rise as Faith's sister-in-law has much different ideas about child-rearing than Faith does, and their families are sharing a cabin. When the resort's chef disappears, caterer Faith takes over and her vacation is essentially over. Another dead body shows up and no one knows who to trust. Author Page does a good job of portraying the difficult relationships which can occur when an extended family gets together for an long period of time. Her choice of a Vermont ski lodge as the setting of the book is also a good one. Her portrayals of the teenagers and the strange woman who lives in a "gingerbread house" in the middle of the woods are less believable. Also, the motive for murder is not hard to unravel and the ending is a muddle of information which is thrown at the reader in order to tie up all of the loose ends.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the best in the series., April 26, 2005

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Detra Fitch (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Body in the Snowdrift: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries) (Hardcover)

This is the fifteenth mystery in the Faith Fairchild series. This time the entire clan goes to the Pine Slopes Ski Resort in Vermont. The trip is to celebrate Faith's father-in-law's birthday.

Faith stumbles upon Boyd Harrison's body early on and the resort's chef disappears shortly afterward. Since Faith is a caterer, she happily steps in as the resort's chef until a replacement can be found. Things get worse as the week goes on. Someone falls (or is pushed) into the water supply for the snow-making machine. The body is all over the slopes. Pranks and

vandalism are happening every time Faith turns around.

All is not quiet within the Fairchild family either. Faith is amazed at the things she is learning about her family members. Things she really did NOT want to know.

** This novel is not nearly as good as all the previous books in this mystery series. I found this case very easy to solve. The first half of the novel is extremely slow. The only good parts during the first half is the recipes that the author goes into details on how to make. Of course for those who are interested, the recipes can be found either in the back of this novel or in the back of previous novels. There are too many flash backs as well. Often as I read, Faith would find something or have something happen in the first paragraph of a new chapter and then flashes back to the day before. I must read almost the entire chapter before even knowing what is going on. I felt as if I was left suspended somewhere. In my opinion, the story would have been much better had it just been written in the order things happened. As a fan, I can only hope the next mystery in this series is better. **

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.