Home Repair
Bantam
April 2013
On Sale: April 27, 2013
Featuring: Ellie; Jake Tiptree
305 pages ISBN: 0345538587 EAN: 9780345538581 Kindle: B00A1O24YK Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
When it comes to home repair, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree is a
fervent wielder of power drills and paint brushes. And when
catching criminals, she’s been known to really bring down
the hammer. But when a shocking murder rocks the small town
of Eastport, Maine, Jake may be the next victim for whom the
bell tolls.
It is nearly midnight when the enormous bell in the belfry
of All Faith Chapel—silent for decades—booms forth,
startling awake the entire town of Eastport. Upon inspection
of the steeple, the police uncover the body of local
teenager Karen Hansen, who had climbed the belfry’s dark,
rickety stairs for a midnight rendezvous. But instead of the
promise of an exciting new life, Karen meets her death.
Meanwhile, as an epic nor’easter bears down on the idyllic
island town, Jake Tiptree hurries to shore up her ramshackle
old house against the big blow. An amateur detective, she
has sworn off chasing criminals. But when the news of
Karen’s murder spreads and much of the evidence points to
Jake’s likable houseguest, she and her sleuthing partner,
Ellie White, get to work.
They discover an unexpected ally in newcomer Lizzie Snow, a
woman from “away” who seemed to have blown into town with
the nor’easter, and who also seems to know a lot about the
mind of a killer. Can Jake and Ellie trust her? As a killer
roams free and the townsfolk struggle against the pounding,
screaming storm, the resulting tempest of gossip and
suspicion rivals anything the Atlantic could brew up—and
threatens to keep Jake and Ellie from putting the final nail
in this cold-blooded case.
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