The body in the web / Katherine Hall Page.

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Title:

The body in the web / Katherine Hall Page.

Author:

Page, Katherine Hall, author.

ISBN:

9780063252530

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

257 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

A Faith Fairchild mystery ; [26]

Faith Fairchild mystery ; 26.

General Note:

Sequel to: The body in the wake.

Includes recipes (pages 253-257).

Abstract:

Aleford, Massachusetts. The Fairchild family is in lockdown mode as the pandemic spreads. Tom continues his sermons from Zoom; their children, Ben, who's in college, and Amy, a high school senior, are doing remote learning at home. Town halls remain lively and well-attended, despite residents joining from their living rooms. In the midst of one Zoom meeting, damaging images suddenly flash upon everyone's screens. Claudia, the local art teacher, is immediately recognized as the woman who has been targeted. When Claudia is later discovered dead, Faith must journey deep into the dark web to unravel the threads of the woman's history. -- adapted from jacket

Personal Subject:

Fairchild, Faith (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Fairchild, Faith (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00919868

Subject Term:

Pandemics -- Fiction.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Telecommuting -- Fiction.

Dark Web -- Fiction.

Dark Web. (OCoLC)fst02003430

Murder -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01029788

Pandemics. (OCoLC)fst02033697

Telecommuting. (OCoLC)fst01146098

Geographic Term:

Massachusetts -- Fiction.

Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

Detective and mystery fiction.

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Summary

The 26th book in the award-winning Faith Fairchild Mysteries series.

Katherine Hall Page's beloved amateur detective gets wrapped up in a Zoom-bombing scandal that sends her community into a tailspin ... just as a dead body is discovered.

Faith Fairchild joins the rest of the world in lockdown mode when reality flips in March 2020. As the pandemic spreads, Faith and her family readjust to life together in Aleford, Massachusetts. Her husband, Tom, continues his sermons from Zoom; their children, Ben, who's in college, and Amy, a high school senior, are doing remote learning at home .

Faith is happy to have her family under the same roof and grateful for her resilient community, friends, and neighbors in Aleford. Town halls remain lively and well-attended, despite residents joining from their living rooms. It is at one of these town halls that scandal breaks out. In the midst of a Zoom meeting, damaging images suddenly flash upon everyone's screens. Claudia, local art teacher and Faith's dear friend, is immediately recognized as the woman who has been targeted.

When Claudia is later discovered dead, Faith, with the help of her friends, journeys deep into the dark web to unravel the threads of Claudia's mysterious history and shocking passing.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Page's long-running cozy series featuring caterer and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild begins to show its age in this humdrum entry (after 2019's The Body in the Wake). Thanks to an advance warning from her sister that Covid-19 lockdowns are imminent, Faith is able to stock her business and home in Aleford, Mass., with vital supplies, and carves out a pleasant-enough existence for the rest of 2020, laying low with her children and reverend husband. Things take a turn for the worse, however, when a 2021 virtual State of the Town meeting is flooded with pornographic images of one of Faith's close friends. When the same woman is found dead a few days later, Faith is certain it's murder, and she digs into her late friend's foggy past to determine who might be responsible. Newcomers not already invested in Faith and her family are likely to find the setup, which focuses heavily on the early days of the pandemic and takes up nearly a third of the narrative, a bit dull, and while the investigation itself sufficiently quickens the pace, its resolution hinges on an unsatisfying contrivance. This is run-of-the-mill genre fare. Agent: Faith Hamlin, Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc. (May)

Library Journal Review

In January 2021, Faith Fairchild's husband, Tom, is one of the earliest recipients of the COVID vaccine, a sign that life might be getting a little better. Since March 2020, Faith's world has narrowed. Her son, Ben, has returned from college and regularly streams Tom's sermons from an empty church. Events were canceled for her catering business, Have Faith, but with family help, she has pivoted to a delivery service, Have Faith Delivered. Zoom has become part of everyone's life. Even the town meeting is on Zoom, until it is Zoom-bombed one evening, showing nude photos of one of Faith's friends. Although the town rallies around her, she resigns from her job. When Faith finds her friend dead, the police call it suicide or accidental death due to depression, but Faith says it's murder, blaming the Zoom bomber. With tech help from a friend, Faith digs into her friend's past to find someone who hated her. VERDICT The 26th Faith Fairchild mystery (after The Body in the Wake) is fresh and remarkable in its ability to bring back memories of the day-to-day aspects of living through COVID. The reader and the victim are both trapped in a web in this skillful combination of mystery and pandemic story.--Lesa Holstine