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Jabberwocky Bookshop is pleased to welcome Agatha award-winning author Katherine Hall Page for a reading from her seventeenth Faith Fairchild culinary mystery, THE BODY IN THE GALLERY.

Tantalizing cuisine, suspense and wit, these are all the trademarks of Page's novels, and they are in abundance in her latest mystery, which also features modern art, revenge and a deadly game of deception set in the heart of bucolic Aleford, Massachusetts.

Faith Fairchild struggles to connect the dots between a forged Romare Bearden, a Jane Doe corpse, and Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers as she takes over the caf, at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum at the behest of longtime friend Patsy Avery, president of the Ganley's board of trustees. When the corpse turns up as an unintended part of an art installation, Faith becomes enmeshed in the Ganley's murky past and present. At home, her son Ben gets drawn into a cyber-bullying escapade while her husband Tom wants his wife to be more like June Cleaver. Faith is at her wit's end as the killer attacks again, and again.

In praising Page's previous titles, The New York Times Book Review raved, "[Page's] young sleuth is a charmer." And The Denver Post says that Page, "writes with grace and gentle wit, expertly weaving all her material together into a satisfying whole." The Romantic Times says, "Page builds atmosphere and tension beautifully, mesmerizing the reader." Serious joy for lovers of classic crime."

Katherine Hall Page won an Agatha Award in 1990 for her first Faith Fairchild mystery, THE BODY IN THE BELFRY. She has since gone on to receive Agathas for THE WOULD BE WIDOWER (Best Short Story) and for THE BODY IN THE SNOWDRIFT (Best Novel).

The Body in the Gallery
(Faith Fairchild Mysteries (Hardcover))
by Page, Katherine Hall
Format:  Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:  $23.95
Published: William Morrow & Company, 2008
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability

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Faith's catering business has been slow with the downturn of the economy, so when her friend Patsy Avery proposes that she take over the cafe at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum, it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And Patsy has an ulterior motive--she discovers that the Romare Bearden piece she lent the museum has been switched with a fake and wants Faith to snoop around to find the culprit.

Life at the museum doesn't stay calm for long and Faith is soon enmeshed in the Ganley's murky past and present as she struggles to make connections among apparently disparate items: the fake Bearden, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers, "and" a Jane Doe corpse that turns up as an unintended part of an art installation. At home, son Ben, now in the hell known as middle school, becomes involved in a cyberbullying escapade and husband Tom wants his wife to morph into June Cleaver.

Her investigation takes Faith into Boston's art scene and historic Beacon Hill, as well as into the lives behind the facade of the Ganley's very proper board of trustees. She is at her wit's--and almost dead--end, as the killer strikes again, and again.