The Body in the Sleigh by Katherine Hall Page is a Faith Fairchild mystery.
Katherine Hall Page is an Agatha award-winning author of The Body in the Gallery.
Faith and her family are spending the Christmas holiday on the Sanpere Island in Maine while her husband Tom recuperates from surgery. Faith is in high spirits enjoying the family time together which is rare at the holidays for the wife of a pastor. Christmas time is usually a busy time for the whole family in their home town of Aleford just outside of Boston. They usually are only on the island in the summer.
Tom was napping and Faith was taking the children for their first walk to see the island’s decorations. Faith walked up to the antique sleigh in front of the Sanpere Historical Society to take a picture. Beside the mannequin was the body of a teenage girl, Norah. At first it was believed she died from an overdose of drugs, then the coroner ruled it a murder. The victim was loved by many in this tight-knit community.
Meanwhile on Christmas Eve another mystery unfolds as Mary Bethany a local spinster who raises goats, and runs a bed and breakfast during the summer finds a newborn baby boy in the manger of her barn. The only clue to the child’s identity is the note in the basket asking Mary to take care of him. Faith and Mary decide they must try and find the mother. Soon they find out that there is a connection to Norah’s last days and the abandonment of the baby.
The characters are well developed and the story line moves along quickly and smoothly with wonderful descriptions of the island and its snow covered scenery.
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