The Body in the Gazebo: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries, 19)

"Katherine Hall Page is my favorite writer of the traditional mystery." #8212;Harlan Coben "Hungry readers, enjoy!" #8212;Diana Mott Davidson Minister's wife, caterer, and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild must solve a deadly mystery more than seventy years in the making in The Body in the Gazebo, the nineteenth ingenious whodunit in the delectable, Agatha Award-winning series by Katherine Hall Page. Faith has a lot on her plate as she attempts to solve a Depression Era murder while trying to clear her husband's name after he is accused of a heartless theft. Poignant, suspenseful, puzzling, and all-around marvelous, The Body in the Gazebo is cozy culinary mystery at its very best#8212;complete with scrumptious recipes from Faith Fairchild's kitchen and a resolution that would make Dame Agatha Christie proud From award-winning author Katherine Hall Page comes the next book in the Faith Fairchild mystery series, where the caterer and amateur sleuth must solve a case more than eighty years in the making The Body in the Gazebo "I have to tell you something ... something that happened a long time ago." When Ursula Lyman Rowe speaks these words to Faith Fairchild from her sickbed in Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith has no idea what lies in store for her. It all starts when Ursula's daughter, Pix Miller, Faith's best friend and neighbor, reluctantly leaves town for her son's wedding preparations. Pix knows that Faith and her husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, will keep an eye on the slowly recovering Ursula. What she and Faith don't know is that the tale Ursula spins over the course of several weeks will reveal an unsolved crime dating back to 1929 and the Great Depression. Meanwhile, more current mysteries are brewing. The discretionary fund at the church has been pilfered and the Reverend Fairchild is the only person with access to it. As rumors spread through town, Faith must clear her husband's name before it's irreparably damaged. And when Pix meets her in-laws-to-be for the first time, she's in for the surprise of her life. ... A moving, suspenseful tale, The Body in the Gazebo is an evocative journey into the past, where truth hangs suspended by the threads of one woman's memory'and the present-day consequences of that truth prove to be devastating

I have to tell you something . . . something that happened a long time ago.

When Ursula Lyman Rowe speaks these words to Faith Fair-child from her sickbed in Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith has no idea what lies in store for her.

It all starts when Ursula's daughter, Pix Miller, Faith's best friend and neighbor, leaves town for her son's wedding. Pix knows Faith and her husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, will keep an eye on the slowly recovering Ursula. But what she and Faith don't know is that the tale Ursula spins over the course of several weeks will reveal an unsolved crime dating back to 1929 and the Great Depression.

Meanwhile, more current mysteries are brewing. The dis-cretionary fund at the church has been pilfered and the Reverend Fairchild is the only person with access to it. And, when Pix meets her in-laws-to-be for the first time, she's in for the surprise of her life. . . .

I Have To Tell You Something . . . Something That Happened A Long Time Ago. These Words, Spoken By Ursula Rowe From Her Aleford, Massachusetts, Sickbed, Take Faith Fairchild Completely By Surprise. Having Agreed To Keep An Eye On Her Best Friend Pix Millers's Mother While Pix Is Involved In Her Son's Out-of-town Wedding Preparations, Faith Never Dreamed She'd Become Ensnared In The Tale The Slowly Recovering Ursula Spins Over The Next Few Weeks—a Bizarre Account Of An Unsolved Crime Dating Back To The Great Depression. Now The Caterer-turned-sleuth Is Hooked, Determined To Solve A Mystery More Than Eight Decades Old—while At The Same Time Trying To Clear The Name Of Her Husband, Reverend Thomas Fairchild, Who's Been Falsely Accused Of Pilfering The Church's Discretionary Fund. And Meanwhile, When Pix Miller Meets Her In-laws-to-be For The Very First Time, She's In For The Shock Of Her Life . . . When an audit finds money missing from the minister's discretionary fund at Aleford's First Parish Church, suspicion falls on Faith's husband, the Rev. Thomas Fairchild, the only person with access to the account. To complicate matters, Ursula Rowe, Faith's friend Pix Miller's elderly and ailing mother, asks Faith's help in dealing with the disquieting letters she's recently received. Secrets, the kind that fester and can make even strong people ill, reach back to the 1920s. While trying to find out who is pilfering money from the church and keeping an eye on her friend's elderly mother, Ursula, Faith Fairchild is drawn into a decades-old mystery when Ursula receives a letter linked to her brother's murder during the Depression