The Body in the Snowdrift: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries, 15)

Ms Page has done it again! She draws you in and won't let go. I sit down with the intention of reading a few chapters and stop only when I've finished the book. I have enjoyed the entire Faith Fairchild series. This one was notable for a good murder mystery, as usual, and for getting to know the Fairchild family better.

This series had been getting rather annoying, with Faith becoming more and more unbearable. This one had far too many characters to keep straight, many of whom really weren't necessary, but they managed to make Faith more tolerable. The murderer's identity was fairly easy to figure out, and there were parts where the book became muddled -- particularly when a chapter just jumped into something major, completely out of left field. But the family dynamic made it more interesting than the past few books, in which Faith just looks down her nose at everything. The one thing I didn't understand was the relationship between Faith and Betsy -- I'd never had a hint in previous books that there was any problems between them, and suddenly they're at each others' throats as a plot device. That should've been tightened up in the previous books leading up to this one.