Faith Fairchild is above all a mother and wife. For herself she's built a catering company, Have Faith catering, and because of circumstances she can't control, she investigates crimes. In this book it is a forty year old death of Helene Prince "Prin".

Faith Fairchild agrees to cater to a private party for a select group of women for the world renowned author Barbara Bailey Bishop on Bishop Island. The isolated island is more than an hour's drive by boat from the main land. The home is magnificent with all the luxuries of a five star hotel minus any servants except for Faith and Brent Justice, a handy man.

Once the women arrive and settle into the luxurious home, Eileen Prince reveals herself as Barbara Bailey Bishop. They've been brought together under false pretenses, and the true purpose of their attendance is explained. Even after 40 years, Eileen has not accepted that her twin sister neither fell to her death, nor jumped. She was murdered. If one of these women didn't commit the murder, they know what really happened on the tower.

Unable to leave until the boat returns in two days, the women band together in the low key events balanced around food and the career topics the women have taken on. But not as the dear old friends they were during the first year at Pelham College. Tension is high. There is more than just a murderer amongst them. There are secrets each has hidden. Secrets Prin discovered, used and twisted for her purpose. A storm hits the island and the gale-like winds add an extra level to the danger.

Katherine Hall Page's novel, THE BODY IN THE IVY, is one of those books that I couldn't put down until I found out who the killer was. But the book is about more than just the murder, because each of these suspects had grounds to kill "Prin" Helene Prince. In just these few pages Ms. Page spans four years of college and why friendships that should have lasted a lifetime were instead destroyed beyond repair. I had no troubles keeping up with what decade the storyline was in and which point of view character I was reading. It is easy to accept why Ms. Page is compared to the queen of mystery writing, Agatha Christie.