Faith Fairchild Books in Order

New York caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild is settling into small-town Aleford when she finds Cindy Shepherd's body in the church belfry. With Cindy's ex-fiance under suspicion and local secrets piling up, Faith starts asking dangerous questions.

A patchwork quilt bought at a Sanpere Island estate sale seems to point to hidden treasure. Instead, Faith follows its clues to a corpse on the Maine shore and a tangle of greed, family secrets, and real danger.

Rumors of trouble at Aleford's elegant retirement home draw Faith into the kitchen as a temporary worker. When a resident dies face-first in her bouillon and a blackmailer turns up dead, the house looks far more sinister than refined.

While staying in Lyon with Tom and little Benjamin, Faith throws a dinner party and finds a corpse in her vestibule. When the body vanishes before police arrive, she has to solve a baffling French mystery before the killer reaches her.

A movie crew arrives in Aleford to film a new version of The Scarlet Letter, and Faith lands the catering job. Gossip, sabotage, and an off-camera murder pull her behind the scenes, where protecting her reputation may not be enough.

Pix Miller checks on the Fairchilds' new summer cottage on Sanpere Island and finds a corpse wrapped in an antique quilt in the foundation. Her curiosity soon turns a construction problem into a risky hunt for an antiques killer.

Development battles split Aleford when plans threaten Beecher's Bog, and Faith is pulled into the fight. Then a murder at a burned house and a poisoning show that the wetland dispute has turned deadly.

This time Faith's friend Pix takes center stage, traveling to Norway to investigate a family friend's disappearance. What starts as a favor opens into a trail of stolen antiques, wartime secrets, and a killer with nowhere to hide.

A break-in at Faith's home turns personal fast, and the trail does not stop at stolen property. When a body is tied to the burglary, she goes after both her missing possessions and a murderer.

In this prequel, young Faith Sibley is building her catering business in late 1980s New York. When old friend Emma Stanstead is targeted by a blackmailer, Faith is drawn into Manhattan society, scandal, and murder.

Faith's church catering job becomes a nightmare when a young woman dies right after dessert at Ballou House. With whispers that Faith poisoned her and another body found under a threat, the case turns painfully personal.

Faith goes undercover at a Massachusetts prep school after racist attacks target student Daryl Martin. Tampered ingredients, bitter school politics, and a body in the bonfire show that someone on campus is far more dangerous than a bully.

A late-summer stay on Sanpere Island should be restful, but developers and preservationists are already at war. When Faith finds a body near the old lighthouse, she is pulled into a murder that could scar the island she loves.

While Tom teaches at Harvard Divinity School, the Fairchilds spend a semester in a historic Cambridge house. An old diary hidden in the attic, a former boyfriend's return, and buried secrets turn their sabbatical dark.

A Fairchild family ski reunion in Vermont starts with unease and quickly turns dangerous. A body on a trail, a missing chef, sabotage at the resort, and deep family tensions keep Faith working overtime.

Faith is invited to a remote island gathering hosted by a bestselling writer and her old college circle. Cut off by a storm, the guests start dying one by one, and Faith realizes the weekend was built on lies.

Faith takes over the cafe at Aleford's art museum and agrees to quietly look into a suspected forgery. Then a woman turns up dead inside an installation, and the museum's elegant surface cracks wide open.

Christmas on Sanpere turns grim when Faith finds a young woman's body arranged in a holiday display. A newborn left in a goat barn seems unconnected at first, but both mysteries lead toward the same danger.

An audit puts suspicion on Tom when money disappears from his church fund, just as Faith is asked to help an elderly friend troubled by old secrets. The trail reaches back decades to a deadly summer and a body in a gazebo.

Set before Faith's marriage, this prequel follows her whirlwind engagement to Tom in 1990 New York. Family tensions, repeated attempts on Faith's life, and a murder in an upstairs boudoir threaten the wedding.

Faith and Tom head to Rome and Tuscany for their twenty-fifth anniversary and a friend's cooking school. When a charming travel writer is stabbed in a Roman piazza, the trip becomes another foreign case.

On Sanpere Island, a grand old summer house becomes the center of a bitter inheritance fight. When the housekeeper dies and Sophie Maxwell is put in danger, Faith is drawn into a family battle with deadly stakes.

Sophie Maxwell follows her new husband to Savannah and finds family history waiting in the attic. A vanished body, unsettling accidents, and old Southern secrets force Sophie, and then Faith, into another tangled case.

Broadway legend Max Dane hires Faith to cater his birthday weekend, then admits he really wants her sleuthing. An anonymous empty casket and a guest list drawn from an old production turn the party into a classic closed-circle mystery.

A quieter summer on Sanpere ends when Faith finds a body in her favorite pond and another death follows. As wedding plans and family worries collide, the mystery reaches into Maine's opioid crisis.

During the pandemic, Faith and her family are living under one roof and trying to adjust to lockdown life in Aleford. A Zoom-bombing scandal and Claudia's death send Faith into a very modern mystery.