The Body in the Basement

The Body in the Basement, the sixth volume in Katherine Hall Page's cozy mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild Pix Miller, Faith Fairchild's next-door neighbor, expects to find more than a hole in the ground when she goes to check on the progress of the summer cottage the Fairchilds are having built on Maine's Sanpere Island. She expects a concrete foundation. What she doesn't expect is a very dead body wrapped in a very valuable antique quilt!

The deceased is a local handyman with a suspiciously lucrative sideline in antiques. Sharing her friend Faith's inquisitive nature, Pix resolves to restore Sanpere's shattered peace. But by digging too deeply the determined Ms. Miller just might be arranging another burial her own!

Hall Pages first mystery, The Body in the Belfry, won an Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel. The fifteenth in the series, The Body in the Snowdrift, won the Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel. Page was also awarded the Agatha for Best Short Story for "The Would-Be Widower" in the Malice Domestic X collection.

She was an Edgar nominee for her juvenile mystery, Christie & Company Down East. The Body in the Lighthouse was one of three nominees for The Mary Higgins Clark Award.