The Body in the Kelp

Faith Fairchild Mysteries, book #2

The Old Maid’s Puzzle

It seems as if nothing is going to liven up Faith Fairchild’s deathly dull vacation on Maine’s Sanpere Island — until she buys a beautiful handmade quilt at an estate auction.

Lovingly constructed by wealthy, deceased, and detested Matilda Prescott, Faith’s purchase turns out to be quite a bargain indeed — especially when she discovers it to be a map to the old woman’s hidden treasure. But instead of pointing the transplanted New York caterer-turned-minister’s wife toward the fabled Prescott gold, Matilda’s artfully crafted clues lead Faith to a kelp-covered corpse floating in a nearby tidal pool.

Once again, the resourceful amateur sleuth has become entangled in a dangerous puzzle, ensnared in twisted, lethal threads of familial greed and cold-blooded homicide. And Faith won’t be satisfied until she has the whole murderous matter sewn up.