The body in the bonfire

By Katherine Hall Page

Subjects: Women in the food industry, Faith Sibley Fairchild (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Fairchild, faith (fictitious character), fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, Fiction, Boarding schools, Mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Cooking, Cookery, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Open Library Staff Picks, Large type books, Caterers and catering, fiction, Caterers and catering

Description: Caterer and small-town minister's wife Faith Fairchild might never have accepted the job teaching a course on Cooking for Idiots at Mansfield Academy had it not been for Daryl Martin. An African-American student at the prestigious prep school, Daryl has lately become the target of a series of vicious and anonymous racial attacks -- and Faith is determined to put an end to the injustice. But Mansfield, she finds, is a seething cauldron of secrets, academic in-fighting, and unspoken rules that complicate her task. When someone tampers with her classroom cooking ingredients -- and then the remains of her prime suspect are discovered smoldering in a campus bonfire -- she realizes that a monstrous evil is stalking both Daryl and the school. And suddenly Faith's own life is in serious jeopardy as well!