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    The Body in the Wake: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
    The Body in the Wake: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
    The Body in the Wake: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
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    The Body in the Wake: A Faith Fairchild Mystery

    Written by Katherine Hall Page

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

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    ""The twenty-five mysteries that Katherine Hall Page has cooked up for her sleuth, Faith Fairchild, make for delectable reading. What a body of work! Dig in.""

    -- Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked

    Amateur detective and caterer Faith Fairchild is at her Penobscot Bay, Maine cottage preparing for a summer wedding, when she stumbles across . . . another body in this 25th entry in the beloved mystery series.

    For the first time in years, Faith Fairchild has time for herself. Her husband Tom is spending days on the other side of the island using a friend’s enhanced WiFi for a project; their son, Ben, after his first year in college, is studying abroad for the summer; and their daughter Amy is working at the old Laughing Gulls Lodge, now a revamped conference center.

    Faith is looking forward to some projects of her own. Her friend Sophie Maxwell is also spending the summer on Sanpere Island, hoping for distractions from her worries that she isn’t yet pregnant. And the daughter of Faith’s good friend Pix Miller is getting married to a wonderful guy . . . with a less-than-wonderful mother. Between keeping Sophie’s spirits up and Pix’s blood pressure down, Faith has her hands full.

    And that’s before a body with a mysterious tattoo and connections far away from small Sanpere Island appears in the Lily Pond. Once again, Faith will get to the bottom of this strange case—and whip up a delicious blueberry buckle on the side.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9780062933522
    Author

    Katherine Hall Page

    Katherine Hall Page is the author of twenty-five previous Faith Fairchild mysteries, the first of which received the Agatha Award for best first mystery. The Body in the Snowdrift was honored with the Agatha Award for best novel of 2006. Page also won an Agatha for her short story “The Would-Be Widower.” The recipient of the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement, she has been nominated for the Edgar, the Mary Higgins Clark, the Maine Literary, and the Macavity awards. She lives in Massachusetts and Maine with her husband.

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    • 3/5
      I haven’t read a Faith Fairchild book in a while, and it was like catching up with old friends. Faith’s daughter Amy is working at the local resort as a chef. Faith’s friend, Pix, is alone most of the time for this summer, and is planning her daughter’s wedding. When the groom’s mother shows up, unannounced, totally self-absorbed, and planning to change all the plans, no matter what the kids want, the summer seems doomed. Top that with her new neighbors cutting trees and ruining their privacy and being disagreeable in the extreme, and Pix is not having a good time. The island is not the pleasant place it has been in the past; there is more tension, crime, and even drug problems. Mini lectures about the drug (opiod) problem are a little heavy-handed. While the problem is very real, I would have liked to see the information more integrated into the story line rather than feeling like mini-lectures. I still enjoyed the mystery and the characters were very entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Our heroine, Faith Fairchild, is spending her summer at the family’s cottage on Sanpere Island in Maine. Faith’s best friend Pix is helping her daughter Samantha plan her wedding to Zach, a wonderful guy everyone approves of. But when his flamboyant and self-centered mother Alexandra shows up, everyone is thrown into a tizzy. Faith’s daughter, who is just 16, is working on the island as an assistant chef at a high-end resort/conference center, Laughing Gull Lodge. Amy has taken on more and more responsibility in the kitchen. Her parents want to get a college degree but Amy wants to skip college and go for a career as a chef. Amy obviously takes after her mother, who has a long career as a caterer. But of course, there has to be a body. And this time the victim is a young man with a strange tattoo. And Faith can’t help but get involved with amateur sleuthing. This is a lovely series – this is the 25th book, all of which I've read -- with a wonderful protagonist and a great cast of secondary characters. If I were forced to list one thing I didn’t like about this particular book, it would be that the cast of characters – extras -- - is too long, too much to keep track of. But that’s a small thing and it didn’t keep me from enjoying The Body in the Wake or from gobbling it up in a few hours.Review based on publisher-provided copy of the book.
    • 4/5
      Sympathetic characters, but perhaps a few too many of them. A summer resort is plagued with murders, and amateur detective, sometimes caterer Faith Fairchild, finds herself in the middle.
    • 4/5
      I have always enjoyed this series particularly when all of the characters are present including Faith's children, neighbors the Millers and the people of Maine. This books tales place on Sanpere Island with the main event of Samantha Miller's wedding. There are a number of plots, including the opioid crisis, infertility, the growing up of children and inlaws. Some of the plots were more interesting than other. Sophie Maxwell shows up again--and frankly she is not when of my favorite characters. Great recipes as always. Favorite cameo-- Millicent Revere McKinley!
    • 3/5
      Faith Fairchild, amateur sleuth, is in Maine’s Sanpere Island for the summer.Twenty fifth book in the series, Faith is spending the summer with her friends since her son is away working for a professor as a research assistant, her clergy husband Tom is working on a book and their daughter, Amy has a summer job in the kitchen at Sanpere Shores.Meeting friends at the local pond for a swim, Faith finds a body tangled in the weeds. Other than a tattoo, the dead man had no identification and was unknown to the locals. Island life during warm summer days and nights spent with friends makes this book an excellent beach read with a little murder thrown in.
    • 4/5
      This book, the 25th book in the series, is another solid installment in the much-beloved Faith Fairchild series, this time with Faith and her husband summering in Maine.I enjoy this series, even though I've read them in a haphazard order, which isn't my usual way of doing things. Time to start at the beginning, and then reading them in order, to more fully enjoy these books.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I had read some reviews before I finished the book. I have read all of the books in this series and it’s been fun to watch the characters grow older. Fun to see Samantha plan her wedding and see Amy and Faith work together in the kitchen. Some things were solved a little too easily, such as Pix and Sam’s problem with their neighbor. That was unrealistic. Also when one of the characters is found out to be an addict she is off to rehab in less than 24 hours. I did like the different family members that arrived for the wedding and how their personalities interacted. One thing that I didn’t like was the repetitive referral to Lowell, MA. This book has sub stories based around the opioid epidemic. All of the affected characters came from Lowell, even U Mass Lowell was mentioned. Unfortunately, drugs are everywhere and it seemed unfair to keep mentioning Lowell. Overall, I did like the book.
    • 4/5
      Another book by Katherine Hall Page. Bodied are being found in the waters off Sanpere Island in Maine. The first two are bikers from Lowell, Mass. And have the same tattoo on their arms. In addition to the mysterious deaths, Faith Fairchild's friends, the Millers, daughter is getting married. The Millers have new neighbors who are breaking the covenants of the township by cutting down trees around the cottage they have just bought. When negative incidents start occurring they blame the Millers. In addition to that the Millers daughter's future mother-in-law arrives unexpectedly and tries to change all the wedding plans that are already in place. Another problem comes to light when a rampant drug problem has appeared on the island. When the third body appears, things start to come to light. A pretty good book. Fairly predictable. One problem I had was the book jumped from character to another without distinction. The actual murderer is never actually revealed but not difficult to determine.
    • 5/5
      For Faith Fairchild, this is supposed to be a relaxing summer on Sanpere Island Maine with her husband Tom, daughter Amy, and friends Sophie Maxwell and Pix Miller. But things don’t quire work out that way – Sophie is upset about the fact that she can’t seem to become pregnant, Amy is having issues at her summer job, and Pix is not only dealing with the difficult mother of her daughter’s soon-to-be husband but extremely difficult neighbors. When bodies begin showing up in the water near Sanpere Island, Faith begins to realize that this will not be a quiet summer after all.After not reading Katherine Hall Page’s Faith Fairchild series for years, I have started reading them again and now I wonder why I ever stopped – “The Body in the Wake” is a nicely done mystery. While I miss the Massachusetts setting, I do like the setting of Sanpere Island – I felt like I was there alongside the characters. And this book has a lot of great characters – not only the regulars but Zack’s mother Alexandra (who is obnoxious yet brings just the right amount of humor to the book, especially her interactions with Sophie’s mother Babs). The mystery is well done (and quite sad). I don’t want to give anything away but I will say that the plot line is very current. All in all, this is a nicely done mystery.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book, as I have all of her past ones. There are multiple story lines, the main one being about drug use. Faith is also supporting her friend, Pix, as she prepares for her daughter’s wedding, encouraging her daughter, Amy, who is working as a sous chef, and dealing with her new and nasty neighbors next door. It is set at Faith’s vacation home on a Maine island, but I rather miss her life back home in Aleford as a caterer, with lots of food talk, and her husband, Tom, functioning as a minister.
    • 4/5
      This is the first book that I’ve read in this series. Although I’ve been meaning to start the series. I was not disappointed. It was a fun read. I’m going back to start the series from the beginning.
    • 4/5
      Faith Fairchild is back in book number 25, and bodies keep falling in her way. Despite her best intentions to enjoy the peace of Sanpere Island, Faith is quickly caught up in a murder investigatio...all while distracting her friends (Pix and Sophie) from their worries, preparing to cater the wedding of Pix's daughter, and supporting daughter Amy in her first summer job as a chef-in-training. While it doesn't make for a relaxing vacation, it does make an enjoyable book. When an author has written a character for as long as Katherine Hall Page has penned Faith, you might expect the series to grow stale. Fortunately for us, Faith isn't trapped in a time warp and has been allowed to age and watch her children grow. These changes make sure that each book remains fresh and interesting. This book is perfect for a summer afternoon in a hammock.I received a copy via LibraryThing's Early Reviewers.
    • 3/5
      While I have enjoyed reading the Faith Fairchild mysteries over the years, the last couple of mysteries, including this one, have been somewhat disappointing. I found it hard to keep track of all the people as the viewpoints jumped from one person to the next; for the first several chapters, it was very slow going. About a third of the way into the book, however, it became easier to read and more interesting. I did feel like the series has become the "Faith and Sophie" mysteries rather than just Faith, though.I found it interesting that "The Body in the Wake" which is presumably the source of the title didn't even show up until almost the end of the book. Usually the title body shows up fairly early so the reader can work on solving the mystery with Faith. This time, the title character was the third body found and until it made its appearance, I was beginning to think the title was extremely misleading.Things I liked: humorous situations, Sophie's choice for her writing seminar, the future mother-in-law.Things I didn't care for: too much concentration on the drug trade (yes, I know it's a problem but I don't read mysteries for lectures on topics I see every day in the news); very slow going which all of sudden came to an abrupt conclusion, as though the author suddenly realized she was X number of chapters and Y number of pages into her book and had to bring it to an end before she missed her deadline; loose ends which weren't tied up by the abrupt conclusion (who was the maid/matron of honor at the wedding?).Overall, the book was okay but not the best in the series. Good news for those who haven't read other books in the series: it's pretty much a stand-alone because while there are references to other books, it's not critical to have read them to understand this one. Advice for others who haven't read the other books in the series: go read the first books, quickly, before you think this is how all the books are.I received this book free through the Library Thing Early Reviewers program in exchange for my honest review.
    • 3/5
      It's nearing the end of summer, and Faith and company are on Sanpere Island. Pix's daughter will marry at the close of summer. Faith's daughter Amy secured a job as a sous chef at the island's resort. Faith's friend Sophie also vacations with them on the island. There's a bit of trouble with the neighbors. A body turns up. Prescription opiods figure prominently in the plot. Faith and her friends do less detecting than in other installments although sleuthing gets one of them into a spot of trouble. This installment falls a little flatter than most in the series. I received a copy through LibraryThing Early Reviewers program in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      I found that I had ordered "The Body in the Wake" by Katharine Hall Page from LibraryThing Early Reviewers in spite of the fact that my disappointment in the last two books in the series had caused me to decide not to continue the series. I am so glad that I did. This book is bright, quick, and timely. It reminds me of the joy that I had reading the earlier books. The characters are multi-dimensional and learn and grow throughout this book as well as expressing what growth they have had in the past. The island is not the same as it was when we first saw it, having grown dramatically, along with the rest of the world since its birth. It is shown in clear sparkling vision. The characters not named in the beginning become clear throughout the book, and surprises continue from the very beginning to the last page.
    • 5/5
      The Body in the Wake (Faith Fairchild Mysteries #25) by Katherine Hall PageFaith is at her summer cottage in Maine getting ready for her (friend's) daughters wedding. She plans on a relaxing summer with her Husband busy with work and her children grown. Things are going great until a body turns up in the pond with a unique tattoo. Faith is on the case, and soon more bodies will surface until she can solve this mystery.A fast paced story with a likable cast of characters. Faith is very likable, and so are her friends. The characters are well rounded and face real struggles and life events, making the story more enjoyable. Add a few summer recipes, and it had the makings of a great summer read. Overall and I found The Body in the Wake an enjoyable read. I feel those who love a great cozy mystery will enjoy it as well.* I received this book from Library Thing in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      This is the 25th book in the series and like all of the others the characters and their interactions is the main draw of this series for me. I did enjoy the mystery - Faith’s hunt for clues to the killer’s identity kept my interest
    • 4/5
      Faith and her husband Tom and daughter Amy are summering on Sanpere Island. Faith is busy spending time with her friends: Sophie, newly married, and Pix, whose daughter will soon be married. But several things mar this idyllic time, not the least of which is a dead body. Not known to the island’s inhabitants, the dead man is connected to another dead body through matching tattoos. Much of the enjoyment of the series comes from the interaction of the characters as they deal with the problems of day to day life, which soon become complicated by the unexplained deaths. Well written with a mystery to solve that almost takes a back seat to the characters lives, this book will stand alone, although to really understand the characters, readers should enjoy the series from the beginning.
    • 4/5
      The Body In The WakeBy Katherine Hall PageWhat it's all about...If you are a reader of any Katherine Hall Page book you know that there is a lot of yummy food as well as a few recipes within its pages. The other great thing is that although she has written tons of books you can easily read any of her books out of order. I have not read one in a while and it was easy to step right into her latest one. In this book there are a few murders that are quite puzzling. But there is also an undercurrent of dangerous activity in this book that seems to focus on rampant drug use in a small beach town. My thoughts after reading this book...Faith and Sophie and their families are the backbone of this book. Faith is sort of like Jessica Fletcher...she always seems to either find a dead body or be around when one is discovered. And that’s the case here. Faith is a chef and is always working on amazing comestibles. Mackerel spread, amazing sandwiches, yummy salads, these are her specialties. There is a recipe for coleslaw as well as one for lobster rolls in the back of this book. What I loved best...This was a great cozy mystery...I loved Faith and Sophie and their families. I loved the surroundings. This book was a lovely breezy reading experience. What potential readers might want to know...Readers who love cozy mysteries and food should really enjoy this book. I received this book from the publisher through Edelweiss. It was my choice to read and review it.