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Before she met and married the Reverend Thomas Fairchild and moved to sleepy little Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith Sibley Fairchild had a catering business in the most colorful, frenetic, and exciting city in the world...Young, ambitious and single in New York City in the late '809s, Faith Sibley is energized by the early success of her Have Faith catering enterprise. But she's cast into an unexpected new role when she runs into old high school friend Emma Stanstead at a swanky uptown party: show more sleuth An anonymous blackmmailer is threatening to expose certain secrets of socialite Emma's less than glamorous past -- thereby destroying her reputation and her conservative husband's fast-rising political career -- and Faith fearlessly leaps into the fray. Though she lacks experience, Faith's keen instinct, insight, and determination to unmask and extortionist quickly carry her deep into the high and low life of the bustling Big Apple. And when a murder raises the stakes, Faith realizes that it's not just her old friend's good name that's in peril...it's Emma's life itself. show lessTags
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This prequel to The Body in the Belfry and the rest of the delightful Faith Fairchild mysteries, is a paean to NYC, and the city especially during the Christmas season. As a huge fan of the Big Apple, I loved every paragraph of The Body in the Big Apple - lots of local color and brand names of places one would like to be hanging out in December in the City. Faith Fairchild renews acquaintance with her long time, very wealthy friend Emma, now married to an up-and-coming politician. They meet at a dinner Faith is catering, and besides renewing their friendship, Emma asks Faith's advice and help about what one does when one is being blackmailed. Two murders and a couple of attempts later, Faith has cracked the case, as well as many an egg show more and whipping up other ingredients in her day job. It's a good read; highly recommended for all who love New York and intelligent, fun cozies. show less
I suspect that author Katherine Hall Page envisioned a second Faith Fairchild series, one set in the 1980s and 1990s, when Faith was still Faith Sibley, a young, hip New York City socialite/caterer, and had yet to meet the Reverend Tom Fairchild. A sort of Rugrats: All Grown Up! but in reverse. I’m so glad to see that Page saw sense and gave that idea up after this novel set in the 1989.
In this 10th entry in the Faith Fairchild series, a very thinly disguised Abbie Hoffman gets murdered after years on the run. Abbie — oh, I mean underground radical leader Nathan Fox — gets murdered in his Lower East Side apartment. Fox has unlikely former lovers, illegitimate kids and I can’t remember what else, probably because I just didn’t show more care that much. Skip this one and move on to No. 11, The Body in the Moonlight You won’t have missed a thing. show less
In this 10th entry in the Faith Fairchild series, a very thinly disguised Abbie Hoffman gets murdered after years on the run. Abbie — oh, I mean underground radical leader Nathan Fox — gets murdered in his Lower East Side apartment. Fox has unlikely former lovers, illegitimate kids and I can’t remember what else, probably because I just didn’t show more care that much. Skip this one and move on to No. 11, The Body in the Moonlight You won’t have missed a thing. show less
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Katherine Hall Page was born in New Jersey in 1947. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Wellesley College, a master's degree in Secondary Education from Tufts University and a Doctorate in Administration, Public Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University. Before becoming a full-time writer, she taught in high school for many show more years. She is the author of the Faith Fairchild Mystery series. She has won numerous awards including the 1991 Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel for The Body in the Belfry, the 2006 Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel for The Body in the Snowdrift, and the 2001 Agatha Award for Best Short Story for The Would-Be Widower. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Katherine Hall Page is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Canonical title
- The Body in the Big Apple
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Faith Sibley; Emma Stanstead; Michael Stanstead; Poppy Morris; Josie Wells; Hope Sibley (show all 7); Richard Morgan
- Important places
- Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
- Epigraph
- The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. - Henri Bergson
- Dedication
- To my mother, Alice M. Page, with love and joy
- First words
- "Is there a back way out of this apartment?" the young woman asked anxiously.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Sometimes life lets us make choices. Sometimes it reaches out and chooses us.
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- Members
- 205
- Popularity
- 158,669
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.33)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 2
