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Title: Disappointing
Review: When I read her first book, _The Body in the Belfry_, I was delighted to believe I had found another mystery author I could enjoy. This was the next one I read (out of sequence, I know), and in the wake of her debut... so disappointing. The title is misleading, the pace is slow, the ending fails to satisfy. So much of the story seems like filler for an uninspired plot.Moreover, Faith evolves in this installment into a shallow character even as Page tries to make her dynamic. As a mother of 2 myself I was hoping to find a food snob who could juggle it all, but instead I met a mother whose primary objective seems to be to find other places for her children to be so that she can better indulge in reading a diary she finds and shares with the reader (more filler).I thought this was a strategy similar to moving Jessica Fletcher to teach on a city campus in NY, but Page departs from more than the village of Aleford.
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