The body in the snowdrift
Subtitle: a Faith Fairchild mystery
By: Katherine Hall Page.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Fairchild, Faith Sibley (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Women in the food industry -- Fiction; Caterers and catering -- Fiction; Ski resorts -- Fiction; Cookery -- Fiction; Vermont -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: On a family reunion celebrating her father-in-law's seventieth birthday at a Vermont ski resort, Faith Fairchild discovers a body on one of the cross-country trails. As vandalism and mayhem disrupt the resort routine, Faith investigates, hoping to get to the bottom of the crime spree, salvage the reunion, prevent the closing of Pine Slopes resort--and save her own life.
Table of contents: title: Caterer Faith Fairchild has a bad feeling about her father-in-law's decision to celebrate his seventieth birthday with a family reunion ski week at the Pine Slopes resort in Vermont -- the Fairchilds' favorite getaway since Faith's husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, was a toddler. At first her unease seems unfounded -- until Faith comes across a corpse on one of the cross-country trails, the apparent victim of a heart attack.; title: Then one catastrophe follows another: the mysterious disappearance of the Pine Slopes' master chef, a malicious prank at the sports center, a break-in at the Fairchild condo, the sabotage of a chairlift. And when a fatal "accident" with the snow-making machines stains the slopes blood red, Faith realizes she'll have to work fast to solve a murderous puzzle -- because suddenly not only are the reunion and the beloved resort's future in jeopardy . . . but Faith's life is as well