The Body in the Bookcase (Faith Fairchild Series #9)

Be the first to write a review
Pick Up In Store

Pick Up in Store

Reserve and pick up in 60 minutes at your local store

Paperback (Mass Market Paperback) 
A small-format, low-cost paperback -- usually 4 1/4" x 6 3/4" -- most often used for genres such as mystery, romance, and sci-fi, as well as bestsellers with broad commercial appeal.
$7.99
BN.com price
Marketplace (New and Used)
from
$0.01
$7.99 List Price (Save 100%)
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
All (106)  
Used (97)  
New (9)  
Close
Sort by
Page 1 of 11
Showing 1 – 10 of 106 (11 pages)
$0.01
(Save 100%)
Better World Books
Seller since 2006

Feedback rating:

(50875)

Condition:

New — never opened or used in original packaging.

Like New — packaging may have been opened. A "Like New" item is suitable to give as a gift.

Very Good — may have minor signs of wear on packaging but item works perfectly and has no damage.

Good — item is in good condition but packaging may have signs of shelf wear/aging or torn packaging. All specific defects should be noted in the Comments section associated with each item.

Acceptable — item is in working order but may show signs of wear such as scratches or torn packaging. All specific defects should be noted in the Comments section associated with each item.

Used — An item that has been opened and may show signs of wear. All specific defects should be noted in the Comments section associated with each item.

Refurbished — A used item that has been renewed or updated and verified to be in proper working condition. Not necessarily completed by the original manufacturer.

Good
Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!

Ships from: Mishawaka, IN

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$0.01
(Save 100%)
Wiz Kids Books
Seller since 2010

Feedback rating:

(1254)

Condition: Good
Complete and clean. Good reading copy. Light edge wear to cover

Ships from: Irmo, SC

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$0.01
(Save 100%)
OwlsBooks-TRM
Seller since 2009

Feedback rating:

(22560)

Condition: Good
Giving great service since 2004: Buy from the Best! 4,000,000 items shipped to delighted customers. We have 1,000,000 unique items ready to ship! Find your Great Buy today!

Ships from: Lakewood, WA

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$0.01
(Save 100%)
Discover Books Ltd.
Seller since 2006

Feedback rating:

(3584)

Condition: Good
Some wear on book from reading, some spine creases, wear on binding and pages, we guarantee all purchases and ship all items via USPS mail.

Ships from: Sumas, WA

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
$0.97
(Save 88%)
5KBooks
Seller since 2010

Feedback rating:

(963)

Condition: Very Good
VG Nice copy with light cover wear. Pages clean with tight binding.

Ships from: Queen Creek, AZ

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$0.97
(Save 88%)
RRBooks
Seller since 2008

Feedback rating:

(2930)

Condition: Very Good
VG- Mild cover wear. Mild aging to clean pages with tight binding.

Ships from: San Jose, CA

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$0.99
(Save 88%)
Coas Books, Inc. NM
Seller since 2005

Feedback rating:

(1225)

Condition: Good
1999 Mass Market Paperback Good Possible defects such as light shelving wear may exist. May have minor creasing, writing, stickers and/or residue. COAS Books, A Bookstore for ... Everyone. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Read more Show Less

Ships from: Las Cruces, NM

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$0.99
(Save 88%)
Patrico Books NY
Seller since 2005

Feedback rating:

(3431)

Condition: Good
1999 Mass Market Paperback Good Good Ships Out Tomorrow!

Ships from: Apollo Beach, FL

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$0.99
(Save 88%)
DMQ MN
Seller since 2005

Feedback rating:

(52)

Condition: Good
1999 Mass-market paperback Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 384 p. Faith Fairchild Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. ... Edgewear, soft corners, small crease back bottom corner, scuff on back, cover crease along spine, spine creases, small crease top cover corner, 95 Read more Show Less

Ships from: Cook, MN

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$0.99
(Save 88%)
BookHolders MD
Seller since 2005

Feedback rating:

(3581)

Condition: Good
Reprint Good [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Edition: Reprint ] Publisher: Avon Pub Date: 11/9/1999 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Pages: 384.

Ships from: College Park, MD

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
Page 1 of 11
Showing 1 – 10 of 106 (11 pages)
Close
Sort by
NOOK Book (eBook)
$7.99
BN.com price

Available on NOOK devices and apps

  • Nook Devices
  • NOOK
  • NOOK Color
  • NOOK Tablet
  • Tablet/Phone
  • NOOK for iPad
  • NOOK for iPhone
  • NOOK for Android
  • NOOK for Android (Tablet)
  • NOOK Kids for iPad
  • PC/Mac
  • NOOK Study
  • NOOK for PC
  • NOOK for Mac

Want a NOOK? Explore Now

More About This Book

Overview

Katherine Hall Page has delighted readers with her mysteries featuring the indomitable Faith Fairchild, professional caterer and amateur detective in quaint Aleford, Massachusetts. This time out, the crime occurs too close to home -- Faith's own home! She becomes the latest victim in a rash of neighborhood burglaries when thieves break in and clear out all her jewelry and silver. Undaunted by skeptical police, Faith sets out to find her precious belongings by figuring out how the break-ins are linked, plunging headlong into the complicated maze of New England's lucrative antiques business. Before long, she finds herself in the middle of a ring of scheming dealers who prefer theft to auctions and who aren't averse to murder if the price is right.

Boasting a popular, plucky heroine, deft plotting, and witty, suspenseful prose, The Body in the Bookcase draws on Page's real-life experience with a break-in at her home. And as Faith prepares a lavish feast for finicky Stephanie Bullock's wedding, Page showcases more of the delicious recipes her readers have come to adore.

Editorial Reviews

Dallas Morning News
Peopled with entertaining and resourceful characters and sprinkled with mouth-watering recipes.
Kate's Mystery Books Newsletter
An eclectic blend of the elegant, the witty, and the mysterious...Page excels at characterization.
More Reviews (8) Fewer Reviews
Marilyn Stasio
Faith Fairchild...is so perfect you want to go for your gun....this undercover look at the dark side of the antiques trade turns up all kinds of inside dope sure to fascinate — and infuriate — paranoid property owners.
—New York Times Book Review
Mystery News
Realistic and well-drawn characters...alluring, appealing, well-written, and savory.
New York Times Book Review
A smartly executed excursion into the shady side of the antiques trade turns up all kinds of inside dope sure to fascinate—and infuriate—paranoid property owners."fascinate—and infuriate—paranoid property owners.
Poisoned Pen
Warmhearted yet acerbic, cozy without being sappy, with luscious recipes as a bonus.
Rendezvous
A down to earth...entertaining read.
Library Journal
After a string of house robberies, including one at her own, series caterer and sleuth Faith Fairchild (The Body in the Bog, LJ 4/1/96) determines to retrieve her stolen property. She uncovers a ring of antiques thieves and murder and still has time for recipes. Recommended.
Marilyn Stasio
Faith Fairchild...is so perfect you want to go for your gun....this undercover look at the dark side of the antiques trade turns up all kinds of inside dope sure to fascinate -- and infuriate -- paranoid property owners. -- The New York Times Book Review
Jon L. Breen
Though the subject matter is essentially serious, the cast of humourously observed characters keep the reader smiling most of the way.
— Ellery Queen

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780380732371
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 11/28/1999
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 431,988
  • Series: Faith Fairchild Series , #9
  • Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 0.96 (d)

Meet the Author

Katherine Hall Page is the author of eighteen previous Faith Fairchild mysteries. Her first book, The Body in the Belfry, received the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel; The Body in the Snowdrift was honored with the Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel; and "The Would-Be Widower" won the Agatha Award for Best Short Story. She has also been a nominee for the Edgar® Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband.

Read an Excerpt

Chapter One



Night had fallen in Aleford, Massachusetts, and its inhabitants-those who were still awake-were involved in a variety of pursuits.

At the First Parish parsonage, Faith Sibley Fairchild was sitting in the living room with her husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, before the unlighted hearth. It was an attractive room, stretching from the front of the house to the back. A deep blue Oriental rug bequeathed by some previous inhabitant lay on the floor, its colors repeated in the room's drapes and upholstery. A few spindly chairs, also hand-me-downs, had been supplemented by the Fairchilds' own, more comfortable furniture. Their belongings decorated the walls, personalized the tabletops.

Their two children, Ben, five, and Amy, twenty months, were mercifully sound asleep upstairs. The morning paper and the book she was reading lay untouched on the coffee table in front of Faith. She was enjoying the rare sensation of doing nothing and her mind drifted to thoughts of May-thoughts of the current season.

Although she had lived in Aleford for six years, Faith had never become used to spring in New England. It was such a tease. Spring in Manhattan, where she had lived previously, went on and on forever. First, a certain ineffable warmth crept into the air. It was followed by the whiff of new soil, which infused the odor of exhaust fumes with promise. Central Park began to look like something from a Disney movie, daffodils playfully bending their heads to gentle breezes, beds of pansies with faces like kittens lining the walks, and animated robins hopping about on the velvet green of the Great Lawn. A brilliant swath of tulips stretchedas far as the eye could see down Park Avenue. Swelling pale green buds on branches made veils of the trees in Gramercy Park.

In Aleford, however, April meant six feet of snow and May was a big maybe. Toward the end of the month, a few of the flowers promised by the showers, or moisture in a more solid form, struggled into the light of day. Then Mother Nature did a fast-forward and everything happened at once. Fruit trees burst into blossom. Birds returned and sang. The bulbs that the squirrels and deer hadn't eaten bloomed. It was beautiful. Briefly beautiful. Then the region lurched into summer, the temperatures soaring, narcissi withering. Faith had immediately understood the local mania for forcing bulbs indoors, as well as branches of forsythia and flowering quince, or virtually anything with swelling bark one might find to hack down, cart inside, and plunge into containers of water. Forcingan apt term-as in "If X wants a hyacinth, X will be forced to force it."

"Nice to finally be able to turn the heat off," Tom said cheerfully, interrupting his wife's somewhat resentful thoughts. She walked over and sat on the arm of the wing chair where he was sitting, planting a kiss on the top of his head. There were certain compensations to New England's drawbacks, the primary one was her husband, a native son.

"You'd have turned it off in March if you hadn't married such a thin-skinned New Yorker. Admit it!" Tom was wearing a T-shirt with the slogan If God Is Your Copilot, Change Seats, given to him by one of his parishioners, while Faith was in a turtleneck and sweater. Both kids seemed to have inherited Tom's heat-generating genes. One of Ben's first full sentences had been, "I don't need a jacket, Mom." And it was a struggle to keep Amy from stripping off most of her clothes once they were on.

Tom wisely decided not to pursue the subject of thermostats any further and instead asked, "What's your schedule tomorrow? I may have some time late in the afternoon, and we can take the kids to Drumlin Farm. See the spring lambs."

It sounded terribly quaint and was just the sort of thing Faith hoped her children would remember when they grew up, not the fact that she was the meanest mother in the nursery school because Ben couldn't have Nintendo. Or at least if they remembered these other things-and there were sure to be plenty-she could always come back with "But what about all those nice times, like taking you to see the spring lambs?" She had observed Pix Miller, her friend and next-door neighbor, try this tactic with her adolescents, with varying degrees of success, but at least the ammunition was there.

"Spring lambs sound great, and I think I'll make some parish calls in the morning."

Tom looked skeptical. Faith had said the same thing the previous night.

"I know, I know—I've been putting them off, but I really haven't had a spare minute."

Faith had awakened that morning, fully intending to make some. She'd been filled with the kind of vernal energy that impels some women to attack grime on their windows and dust bunnies under the radiators-or the ironing, which, in Faith's case, threatened to erupt like Mount Vesuvius from the spare-room closet, flow down the stairs and out the front door, entombing hapless passersby for eternity. But then she'd had to help out at the last minute at Amy's play group and something had come up at Have Faith, her catering company. Suddenly, it was time to make dinner, and all her best intentions were exactly where they'd been that morning.

"You know, you don't have to do them," Tom said, drawing his wife from her perch to a more comfy place on his lap.

Even before they were married, Tom had been adamant that the "gig," as he occasionally referred to his calling, was his alone. While recognizing her husband's thought fulness, Faith was also well aware of the naivete of the notion. She'd grown up in a parish. Her father was a man of the cloth, as was his father before him. In Manhattan, the parsonage had, at Faith's mother's insistence and expense, taken the form of a roomy duplex on the Upper East Side, yet it remained a fishbowl, despite the doormen on guard. In every congregation on earth, it's an immutable ...

Table of Contents

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
( 0 )

Rating Distribution

5 Star

(0)

4 Star

(0)

3 Star

(0)

2 Star

(0)

1 Star

(0)

Your Rating:

Review Guidelines
Add Recommendations
Your Name: Create a Pen Name or Leave Anonymously

Barnes & Noble.com Review Rules

Our reader reviews allow you to share your comments on titles you liked, or didn't, with others. By submitting an online review, you are representing to Barnes & Noble.com that all information contained in your review is original and accurate in all respects, and that the submission of such content by you and the posting of such content by Barnes & Noble.com does not and will not violate the rights of any third party. Please follow the rules below to help ensure that your review can be posted.

Reviews by Our Customers Under the Age of 13

We highly value and respect everyone's opinion concerning the titles we offer. However, we cannot allow persons under the age of 13 to have accounts at BN.com or to post customer reviews. Please see our Terms of Use for more details.

What to exclude from your review:

Please do not write about reviews, commentary, or information posted on the product page. If you see any errors in the information on the product page, please send us an email.

Reviews should not contain any of the following:

  • - HTML tags, profanity, obscenities, vulgarities, or comments that defame anyone
  • - Time-sensitive information such as tour dates, signings, lectures, etc.
  • - Single-word reviews. Other people will read your review to discover why you liked or didn't like the title. Be descriptive.
  • - Comments focusing on the author or that may ruin the ending for others
  • - Phone numbers, addresses, URLs
  • - Pricing and availability information or alternative ordering information
  • - Advertisements or commercial solicitation

Reminder:

  • - By submitting a review, you grant to Barnes & Noble.com and its sublicensees the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right and license to use the review in accordance with the Barnes & Noble.com Terms of Use.
  • - Barnes & Noble.com reserves the right not to post any review -- particularly those that do not follow the terms and conditions of these Rules. Barnes & Noble.com also reserves the right to remove any review at any time without notice.
  • - See Terms of Use for other conditions and disclaimers.
Search for Products You'd Like to Recommend

Recommend other products that relate to your review. Just search for them below and share!

Create a Pen Name

Your Pen Name is your unique identiy on BN.com. It will appear on the reviews you write and other website activities. Your Pen Name cannot be edited, changed or deleted once submitted.

Your Pen Name can be any combination of alphanumeric characters (plus - and _), and must be at least two characters long.

Continue Anonymously

We're sorry, but penname is already taken.

Please select one of the following:
Your Pen Name can be any combination of alphanumeric characters (plus - and _), and must be at least two characters long.

Continue Anonymously

penname is available!

By visiting the BN.com website or marking a purchase on BN.com, a User is deemed to have accepted the Terms of Use.

Continue Anonymously

Welcome, penname

You have successfully created your Pen Name. Start enjoying the benefits of the BN.com Community today.

If you find inappropriate content, please report it to Barnes & Noble
Why is this product inappropriate?
Comments (optional)
500 character limit