Description

The twenty-first Faith Fairchild mystery takes Faith and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, to Italy, where murder and mayhem mix with pecorino, panna cotta, and prosecco.

To celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary, amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, leave placid New England behind for a week of romance and fine food in Italy. The bruschetta, the biscotti, the Chianti—Faith can’t wait! She’s also looking forward to seeing her former assistant Francesca, and take a class at her new cooking school in Florence.

But on their very first night, a travel writer Faith meets in their Roman hotel turns up dead. Then, in their cooking class in Florence, they find themselves surrounded by a number of suspiciously familiar faces they recognize from Rome.

Someone is cooking up some unsavory business, including sabotaging Francesca’s school. To save her anniversary vacation and protect her friend, Faith must follow a twisting trail of clues to unmask a killer—while learning to master a mean Spaghetti a la Foriana, too!

About the Author

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.

Praise For…

“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