The Body in the Snowdrift

The Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page won the 2005 Agatha Award. It's one in a series about a caterer named Faith Fairchild who is married to a priest with whom she has 2 children.

from the back of the book:

Caterer Faith Fairchild has a bad feeling about her father-in-law's decision to celebrate his seventieth birthday with a family reunion ski week at the Pine Slopes resort in Vermont - the Fairchilds' favorite getaway since Faith's husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, was a toddler. At first her unease seems unfounded - until Faith comes across a corpse on one of the cross-country trails, the apparent victim of a heart attack.

Then one catastrophe follows another: the mysterious disappearance of the Pine Slopes' master chef, a malicious prank at the sports center, a break-in at the Fairchild condo, the sabotage of a chairlift. And when a fatal "accident" with the snow-making machines stains the slopes blood red, Faith realizes she'll have to work fast to solve a murderous puzzle - because suddenly not only are the reunion and the beloved resort's future in jeopardy ... but Faith's life is as well.

I don't like mysteries in which the main character keeps listing the suspects and their points of interest, and this book is definitely guilty of that. Culinary delights are described throughout the book with parenthetical page numbers where recipes can be found. Not really my thing. There are several pathetically immature marriages we get to know that don't contribute to the plot and far too many characters for me to easily keep straight.

This is not going on my list of favorites, and, although it was interesting enough to finish, it wasn't interesting enough to motivate me to read more in the series.