Home Repair Is Homicide #11
Bantam
January 2008
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Featuring: Jacobia (Jake) Tiptree
304 pages ISBN: 0553804308 EAN: 9780553804300 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Once upon a time, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree was a hotshot
money manager to Manhattan's rich and dreadful—until she
left city life behind for a centuries-old fixer-upper in
the quaint seaside town of Eastport, Maine. But even this
tiny haven has its hazards—and they can be astonishingly
deadly....
When a mysterious book is
unearthed from the foundation of Jake's 1823 fixer-upper,
she immediately sends it off to local book historian
Horace Robotham. After all, there must be a logical
explanation for why the long-buried volume has her
name in it—written in what looks suspiciously like blood.
But all logic goes out the window when the book disappears—
and Horace turns up dead.
The suspects include
Horace's spoiled daughter, who has enough credit card debt
to give killing her rich daddy a certain appeal. And just
about everyone's pointing fingers at a local crackpot with
a penchant for black magic and an unholy lust for its
artifacts—including antique texts inked in blood. To
complicate matters further, there's a mysterious stranger
in town with vengeance in his heart and a gun in his
pocket.
Never mind that Jake's just taken a
sledgehammer to her ancient bathroom. Or that she forgot
she's set to host a party for Eastport's most treasured
teacher. She's also about to lose her beloved housekeeper
on account of her father's hasty marriage proposal...and
her son, Sam, has just taken his first tentative steps
toward sobriety.
But all that will have to wait,
because when two more victims turn up in a town better
known for its scenic views and historic homes than its
body count, she and her comrade-in-sleuthing, Ellie White,
need to go on the prowl to find someone who may believe
that the pages of an ancient book are the blueprint for a
perfect murder.
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