The Body in the Piazza: A Faith Fairchild Mystery - Couverture rigide

Faith Fairchild is going to Italy, where murder and mayhem mix with pecorino, panna cotta, and Prosecco, in the latest entry in this "highly entertaining mystery series [that] effectively mixes modern-day moral dilemmas with charm, warmth, and humor" (Booklist)

The Body in the Piazza

To celebrate their wedding anniversary, intrepid caterer and sometime sleuth Faith Fairchild and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, are off to Italy for a vacation filled with exquisite indulgences—the art, the Chianti, the food, the Ferragamos! The plan is to spend a romantic weekend in Rome before heading to Tuscany for a stay at Cucina della Rossi, a cooking school founded by Faith's back-in-the-day assistant Francesca Rossi.

Faith is certain that the only intrigue in store for her will be learning the secret recipe for Nona Rossi's ragu. But a thicker plot begins to simmer when the Fairchilds accidentally stumble upon a dying man in the Piazza Farnese. It's clear from the knife in the victim's chest that murder is on the menu.

Mysterious faces from Rome reappear in Tuscany. To Faith, this is no coincidence. And somebody is intent on sabotaging Francesca's new business by spoiling the cream and salting the flour. As Faith struggles to follow a trail more twisting than fusilli, she may be putting both herself and her husband in hot water.

“Enticing recipes at the back of the book and cooking tips sprinkled throughout ... The crime is solved satisfactorily...[but] let’s be honest: most of us came for the food.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Delightful . . . Hungry readers will rush to the kitchen if not to their travel agent to book tickets to Italy.” (Publishers Weekly)

Katherine Hall Page is my favorite writer of the traditional mystery. (Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Live Wire)

“Katherine Hall Page’s intellect and wit shine through in every line...Hungry readers, enjoy! (Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times bestselling author of Crunch Time)

[Page] is an expert at the puzzle mystery. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

[An] endearing series. (Denver Post)

A highly entertaining mystery series [that] effectively mixes modern-day moral dilemmas with charm, warmth, and humor. (Booklist)

“Page’s ability to keep her characters and plots fresh for more htan two decades is quite remarkable...Page has yet to disappointe readers...[The Body in the Piazza] is one of the most entertaining and most sophisticated entries in the series...[it] is just about perfect escapism.” (Connecticut Post)