The Body in the Gazebo

A Faith Fairchild Mystery

Fiction - Mystery - General
272 Pages
Reviewed on 05/09/2012
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Reviewed by Jean Brickell for Readers' Favorite

Faith Fairchild is a caterer but like a modern day Miss Marple, she has a knack for solving mysteries. Husband Tom is a pastor who himself is troubled by a large amount of money missing from the a church fund. An elderly friend tells her the tale of a murder that happened during the Great Depression and so Faith has two problems that she becomes involved in. Along with dinners to cater and children to involve her time, she takes on the added involvement of the missing money and a murder that happened so many years ago but that still preys on the mind of friend Ursula because the murder victim was her only brother. Ursula feels she knows who killed him but has no way to prove it.

This is an interesting story about theft, murder, pies and cakes. Faith Fairchild becomes involved in all this. She is an expert caterer but has a heart that wishes to help other people and would risk her life to do so. Included after the story of murder and theft is a selection of recipes that Faith is famous for. I wish that we all have a friend like Faith who could help us solve problems and then come visiting with a pan of cinnamon roll or an apple pie. This is a book about warm friendships. It is about friends helping friends in big and small problems, big like solving murders and small like advising a friend.