The Body in the Moonlight

After having suffered through the tenth entry in this usually fine series, The Body in the Big Apple, how glad I am that Faith Fairchild is back in Aleford, Massachusetts in the present day! (Well, at least in 1999.) The minister’s wife, caterer and mother still has plenty of problems, though, as a guest at a fund raiser Faith catered drops dead at the first bite of a panna cotta Italian cream dessert. Faith’s terrified she’ll be arrested. But even with an arrest, news of a fatality would destroy Faith’s catering business, called Have Faith.

At the same time, some very unsavory but completely unfounded rumors are going around about Aleford’s Winthrop Elementary School. Faith is determined to put an end to it, and she makes show more common cause with some unlikely allies.

So glad to have the real Faith Fairchild back and in a mystery readers will care about. show less

Faith Fairchild is catering an event when one of the guests dies from apparent poisoning. This, of course, frees up some of her time to investigate not only the murder but also to investigate the source of allegations against the school principal. It's a clever plot, but I'll admit that I had it figured out long before Faith did. A visit with Faith is like visiting an "old friend." I haven't read her series in order, but I've enjoyed almost all of the installments. I was a little disappointed that her friend Pix didn't figure in this one more prominently because one of my favorites in the series remains to be The Body in the Fjord in which the action revolves around Pix. Recommended for the nice "cozy" escape.

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