Faith is certain that the only intrigue in store for her will be learning the secret recipe for Nona Rossi's ragu. But a thicker plot begins to simmer when the Fairchilds accidentally stumble upon a dying man in the Piazza Farnese. It's clear from the knife in the victim's chest that murder is on the menu.
Mysterious faces from Rome reappear in Tuscany. To Faith, this is no coincidence. And somebody is intent on sabotaging Francesca's new business by spoiling the cream and salting the flour. As Faith struggles to follow a trail more twisting than fusilli, she may be putting both herself and her husband in hot water.
Katherine
Hall Page was born and grew up in New Jersey, graduating from Livingston High
School. Her father was the Executive Director of The Kessler Institute for
Rehabilitation and her mother was an artist. Page has an older brother and a
younger sister. Early on the family developed a love of the Maine coast,
spending summer vacations on Deer Isle. She received her BA from Wellesley
College, majoring in English and went on to a Masters in Secondary Education
from Tufts and a Doctorate in Administration, Public Planning, and Social
Policy from Harvard. College had brought her to Massachusetts and she continues
to reside there. Before her career as a full-time writer, Ms. Page taught at
the high school level for many years. She developed a program for adolescents
with special emotional needs, a school within a school model, that dealt with
issues of truancy, substance abuse, and family relationships. Those five years
in particular were rich ones for her. This interest in individuals and human
behavior later informed her writing.
Married
for thirty-seven years to Professor Alan Hein, an experimental psychologist at
MIT, the couple have a twenty-nine-year-old son. It was during her husband's
sabbatical year in France after the birth of their son that Ms. Page wrote her
first mystery, The Body in the Belfry, 1991 Agatha Award winner for Best
First Mystery Novel. The fifteenth in the series, The Body in the Snowdrift ,
won the 2006 Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel. Ms. Page was also awarded the
2001 Agatha for Best Short Story for "The Would-Be Widower" in the
Malice Domestic X collection (Avon Books). She was an Edgar nominee for her
juvenile mystery, Christie & Company Down East. The Body in the
Bonfire was an Agatha nominee in 2003. Page's short story, "The Two
Mary's" was an Agatha nominee in 2004. The Body in the Lighthouse
(2003) was one of three nominees for The Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Body
in the Boudoir was a finalist in the 2013 Maine Literary Awards. The
Body in the Piazza, the twenty-first in the series, is out now from William
Morrow in hardcover, large print, E-book, and audio editions.
Descended
from Norwegian-Americans on her mother's side and New Englanders on her
father's, Ms. Page grew up listening to all sorts of stories. She remains an
unabashed eavesdropper and will even watch your slides or home movies to hear
your narration. Her books are the product of all the strands of her life and
she plans to keep weaving.
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