The body in the bonfire

Description:

Caterer and small-town minister's wife Faith Fairchild might never have accepted the job teaching a course on Cooking for Idiots at Mansfield Academy had it not been for Daryl Martin. An African-American student at the prestigious prep school, Daryl has lately become the target of a series of vicious and anonymous racial attacks -- and Faith is determined to put an end to the injustice. But Mansfield, she finds, is a seething cauldron of secrets, academic in-fighting, and unspoken rules that complicate her task. When someone tampers with her classroom cooking ingredients -- and then the remains of her prime suspect are discovered smoldering in a campus bonfire -- she realizes that a monstrous evil is stalking both Daryl and the school. And suddenly Faith's own life is in serious jeopardy as well!

subjects: Mystery,  Women detectives,  Caterers and catering,  Women in the food industry,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Cooking,  Fiction,  Faith Sibley Fairchild (Fictitious character),  Boarding schools,  Cookery,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths,  Fairchild, faith (fictitious character), fiction,  Caterers and catering, fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction

Places: Massachusetts