On Turpentine Lane by Elinor Lipman FIC Lip

Faith Frankel has recently moved back to her home town where she works in Stewardship at her former day school.  To be honest, she IS the Stewardship department.  She has a fiance, Stuart, who is currently walking across the country on a spiritual journey.  Said journey seems to involve a lot of partying and pictures with his arms around attractive women. While Faith can ignore these, she finds it harder and harder to ignore the fact that Stuart rarely returns her calls or texts.

Tired of living in a one-bedroom apartment, Faith purchases a charming 5-bedroom home on Turpentine Lane.  Despite all the things that need to be done, she falls in love with the house.  Until she finds creepy pictures of two babies in the attic...and the police come knocking on her door with a search warrant to search her basement.  What secrets does her new house hold?

Fortunately, Faith has a loving and supportive family (even though her father has moved out of the family home in order to become an artist) and the support of Nick, her office mate and head of Development for the school.  

I breezed through this book in four days - and this from someone who usually takes at least a week to read a book.  The characters are fun and easy to relate to, the setting in Massachusetts interesting and I found myself rooting for things to work out for Faith.  I've always enjoyed the authors books and this one is no exception.

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