The Body in the Big Apple - Tapa dura

"'Page's young sleuth is a charmer.' The New York Times Book Review 'Enchanting... well-written... Page's style is entertaining and unpretentiously cultured.' Portland Press Herald"

Before she met and married the Reverend Thomas Fairchild and moved to sleepy little Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith Sibley Fairchild had a catering business in the most colourful, frenetic, and exciting city in the world...Young, ambitious and single in New York City in the late 1980's, Faith Sibley is energised by the early success of her Have Faith catering enterprise. But she's cast into an unexpected new role when she runs into old high school friend Emma Stanstead at a swanky uptown party: sleuth! An anonymous blackmailer is threatening to expose certain secrets of socialite Emma's less than glamorous past - thereby destroying her reputation and her conservative husband's fast-rising political career - and Faith fearlessly leaps into the fray.Though she lacks experience, Faith's keen instincts, insight and determination to unmask an extortionist quickly carry her deep into the high and low life of the bustling Big Apple. And when a murder raises the stakes, Faith realises that it's not just her friend's good name that is in peril...it is Emma's life itself!