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Katherine Hall Page | The Difficulty of Solving a Crime During the Pandemic
Author Guest / May 29, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE BODY IN THE WEB 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? The Body in the Web is the 26th in my Faith Fairchild series (they don’t have to be read in order) and finds my amateur sleuth/wife/mother/caterer faced with the difficulty of solving a crime during the pandemic when the death of a friend is declared a suicide by the police, but Faith knows better—it’s murder. The title refers to both a spider web and the worldwide one, both traps! With her college-aged son and high school senior daughter at home studying remotely and her husband tending his flock in much the same manner, Faith finds her days overflowing with ways to keep her “Pod” nourished in body and mind. A subplot involves a young woman who has had to postpone her elaborate June wedding and her plans to have a honeymoon baby. 2022 saw 2.5 million weddings, the most in forty years, due to the pandemic backlog. Another ripple effect I write about is the way older people had to cope with Covid, describing how a character in other books, Millicent Revere McKinley, faces severe food and fuel insecurity…