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Faith Fairchild and her family have gone to Sanpere Island, Maine, to their summer vacation home during a hot August. The first one I read featured Pix, so when I read the next one featuring Faith, I was confused. She is a great character. She learns a lot about the attitudes of the residents versus the summer people and especially the problems of residents losing their property to those building McMansions. But her outlook on life and family rang true through this book.I enjoyed getting to know Pix's mother and the struggles of the island. The unrest is also evident by a feud going on between two families. The renovations on their place aren't finished, so they move in with her friend Pix's mother. But Faith has won me over.
Faith discovers a body while exploring Sanpere's historical lighthouse and its grounds. Things begin to get serious, and Faith worries about keeping her family safe while she tracks down a killer.I enjoy the books in this series. She didn't do as much catering in this book as usual due to being at their summer place. I highly recommend this book and series.
What a fun book. This is the second Faith Fairchild mystery I've read, and boy, what a great read. It's a book that the reader wants to take their time with, savor the words and the situations. This is a must series for Mystery lovers, both men and women.
(Good service. This is a fairly mediocre mystery novel in a series I've always found enjoyable if not memorable. Not in my experience). But this one has something I'd not previously seen in any book, though I've heard it is a new trend.Apparently the author isn't making enough money from book sales and has resorted to product placement. The frequent mentions of Walmart might have been overlooked, but the laudatory paragraphs advertising Home Depot in the middle of the book are startlingly obvious and strain credibility. At any rate, advertising seeping into books is a terrible idea. Let's hope it doesn't catch on.
Her view of life was summed up, for me, in her belief that her family was entitled to first refusal on a plot of land owned by someone else, destined to be sold to someone else, simply because her family enjoyed looking at it. Faith's vision and concern never extends beyond her family, except for helping out with the Concord Players (sorry, Sanpere Players).
It got a little tiresome to be reminded 10 times how slender the heroine (usually a stand-in for the author) is. I guess I don't much care for Faith Fairchild.
It got even more tiresome that her reaction to anyone with any kind of social concern was to parody or shun them as "lunatics" or "terrorists" (terrorists.). Okay, okay, so you're thin.
Congratulations. She's as eager as the "ecoterrorists" to pull up the drawbridge and let no one else settle in Sanpere, yet doesn't recognize her own hypocrisy.
This was my first Faith Fairchild mystery: I don't plan to bother with another.
THE BODY IN THE LIGHTHOUSE is a short quick read. Author Katherine Hall Page immerses the reader in the details of Faith's life--her cooking, caring for her two children, and her joy in discovering paint chips at Home Depot.
Faith involves herself with the play and suffers mixed feelings about the eco-terrorists. Faith Fairchild arrives in Sampere Island, Maine only to find that the summer house is incomplete, that a Romeo and Juliet scenerio is being carried out in the town even as villagers rehearse the play, and that eco-terrorists are battling developers for the future of this once pristine, but now highly priced town.
Although the death is certainly accidental--isn't it. While she agrees that huge mansions mar the beauty of the island and also cut off beaches from the ordinary citizens, surely fires and destruction are not the way to achieve them.
When she stumbles across a body near the abandoned lighthouse, though, things start looking serious. The story moves forward at an unhurried pace, as Faith uses her connections to the Island's grapevine to discover the secrets so many Islanders hide.
It didn't grip me, and I found Faith to be not especially interesting as a character, but Page's writing is solid and her insights into a changing era on an island transitioning from fishing to resort.
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