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Summary: A movie set, black bean soup, and a local election
Review: A movie-making crew arrives in Aleford and suddenly the little town is caught up in show business. Added to this, a hotly-contested 3-way local election is being held. Faith Fairchild is asked to cater for the movie crew and to work on one of the candidate's campaigns. This puts her right in the middle of a murder of one of the actresses and one of the candidates. Her long-suffering minister husband urges her to let the police solve the murders, but as usual Faith decides to help the lawmen along with her own investigation. This is pretty standard stuff for this series and makes for entertaining reading.
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Summary: A movie set, black bean soup, and a local election
Review: A movie-making crew arrives in Aleford and suddenly the little town is caught up in show business. Added to this, a hotly-contested 3-way local election is being held. Faith Fairchild is asked to cater for the movie crew and to work on one of the candidate's campaigns. This puts her right in the middle of a murder of one of the actresses and one of the candidates. Her long-suffering minister husband urges her to let the police solve the murders, but as usual Faith decides to help the lawmen along with her own investigation. This is pretty standard stuff for this series and makes for entertaining reading.
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Summary: "and all the world's a stage...."
Review: The fine upstanding folk of Alesford, Massachusetts suddenly find themselves very busy. Their intense but usually very polite town politics turns nasty with the entry of one Alden Spaulding into the race. Concerned townsfolk convince Alden's half-sister to run in opposition and now it appears that dirty tricks will sully Aleford's most interesting spectator sport. While these goings on might be enough for most people, not for Alesford. Directing legend, Max Reed has picked the village for a re-make of Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter" as adapted by himself, and Faith Fairchild; minister's wife, mother of two, gourmet cook, and owner/operator of the catering service Have Faith finds herself feeding cast and crew. Intrigue, both internal and external, make life interesting until someone decides to toss in a bit of bad food... and then... poison. Faith has to contend with a double dose of death, as first a member of the movie crew is poisoned from a cup she prepared, and then when she trips over Aleford's obnoxious candidate, face-down on the floor with bashed-in head. Certainly a string of bad luck -- two murders in one week, and Faith up close and personal with both! Two deaths, two killers -- or one? Faith and the police have work to do. Political innuendos, missing suspects, freaked out movie stars, jealous former classmates, all swirl together to make it obvious that life and the silver screen are not so different as we might wish.
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