The Body in the Bonfire

Massachusetts caterer and minister's wife, Faith Fairchild, is back in the twelfth delectable mystery by this award-winning author. Taking advantage of the January doldrums in the catering business, Faith goes undercover at Mansfield Academy, a prestigious prep school, after learning about anonymous racist attacks against senior Daryl Martin. During the school's Project Term, she volunteers to teach Cooking for Idiots and soon learns more about the darker side of adolescence and the academic in-fighting at Mansfield than she wants to know. Then the incinerated remains of Faith's prime suspect are discovered in the smoldering ashes of the traditional Project Term. It's not mischief but murder! A cast of characters, including an internet-obsessed freshman who happens to be the son of Faith's best friend and neighbor, are all connected, but how? Faith frantically struggles to make sense of it, all too aware of the killer's deadly presence tracking her every move.