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The Body in the Big Apple, Faith Sibley Fairchild returns to solve her first mystery ever. Set during Faith's earlier days as a young, single career woman living in New York City, this exciting urban adventure is loaded with blackmail, intrigue, and murder.
Thriving on the success of her new catering company, Faith runs into former classmate Emma Stanstead while catering an exclusive party on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Emma is terrified, and soon Faith is caught up in a desperate race to discover who's threatening to reveal the dark secret of Emma's past--one that would quickly put an end to her husband's fast-rising political career--before it's too late. But it isn't long before Faith realizes that Emma's life is in more danger than her reputation. Faith's search takes her from Central Park to the Lower East Side as time runs out to catch a killer.
With plotting that The New York Times Book Review calls "smartly executed," the recipes (all featuring apples this time) that have won Katherine Hall Page a devoted readership, and a skeleton in every closet, The Body in the Big Apple will delight Page's devoted readership and those new to this award-winning mystery series.In The Body in the Big Apple, Faith Sibley Fairchild returns to solve her first mystery ever. Set during Faith's earlier days as a young, single career woman living in New York City, this exciting urban adventure is loaded with blackmail, intrigue, and murder.
Thriving on the success of her new catering company, Faith runs into former classmate Emma Stanstead while catering an exclusive party on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Emma is terrified, and soon Faith is caught up in a desperate race to discover who's threatening to reveal the dark secret of Emma's past--one that would quickly put an end to her husband's fast-rising political career--before it's too late. But it isn't long before Faith realizes that Emma's life is in more danger than her reputation. Faith's search takes her from Central Park to the Lower East Side as time runs out to catch a killer.
With plotting that The New York Times Book Review calls "smartly executed," the recipes (all featuring apples this time) that have won Katherine Hall Page a devoted readership, and a skeleton in every closet, The Body in the Big Apple will delight Page's devoted readership and those new to this award-winning mystery series.
Synopsis
A prequel to the award-winning series brings amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild to New York City, where a friend's life is threatened and time runs out to catch a killer. Includes the author's trademark recipes (all featuring apples).
About the Author
Katherine Hall Page is the author of twenty 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." She has also been a nominee for the Edgar Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband.