okay, i've become a katherine hall page master. i can read these and know the killer before faith knows it herself. of course, she never seems to "know" - she seems to just get trapped by the person at the very end and her life gets threatened. i'm not sure how i feel about that. i think every once and awhile it's important for your detective to actually SOLVE the crime, not just stumble into the nefarious perpetrator's dastardly plans at the end. because then faith goes, "oh me! oh my! i didn't know it was you! you seemed so charming not fifty pages earlier! why are you smiling at me like that?"

or something.

actually this book would have received two stars EXCEPT that page references my all-time favorite book (Cold Comfort Farm) AND quotes my all-favorite line ("I saw something nasty in the woodshed"). which makes her, by default, awesome.

but, really. think about having faith actually solve the murder next time.