The Body in the Web by Katherine Hall Page

Enjoy a diverting read from a long-running cozy series: THE BODY IN THE WEB by Katherine Hall Page is the latest Faith Fairchild mystery. This one takes place during COVID with Faith needing to pivot her catering business to a service for delivering meals to locked down residents of Aleford, Massachusetts. Her children, Ben and Amy, are respectively now in college and finishing high school, so they able assistants, working around their remote schooling schedules. It does take a while for a body to appear, but readers will likely suspect which character will be the victim and may appreciate the anticipation. The author provides some surprises as to the murderer and also ensures that Faith’s persistence in tracking down that person is much in evidence. THE BODY IN THE WEB received a starred review from Library Journal (“The reader and the victim are both trapped in a web in this skillful combination of mystery and pandemic story”).