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Investigating a conspiracy really wasn't on Nikki's very long to-do list.


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Escape to the Scottish Highlands in this enemies to lovers romance!


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It�s not the heat�it�s the pixie dust.


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They have a perfect partnership�
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Jealousy, Love, and Murder: The Ancient Games Turn Deadly


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Secret Identity, Small Town Romance
Available 4.15.24


Wreck The Halls by Sarah Graves

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Also by Sarah Graves:

Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone, May 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Marshmallow Pie, April 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake, December 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Marshmallow Pie, May 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle, March 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake, April 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle, March 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut, January 2021
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut, March 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake, February 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake, November 2018
Trade Size
Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake, February 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Girls She Left Behind, January 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
A Bat in the Belfry, April 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Knockdown, May 2011
Hardcover
Crawlspace, January 2010
Hardcover
A Face at the Window, January 2009
Hardcover
The Book of Old Houses, January 2008
Hardcover
Trap Door, December 2007
Mass Market Paperback
Trap Door, January 2007
Hardcover
Nail Biter, December 2005
Hardcover
Tool & Die, January 2005
Hardcover
Mallets Aforethought, November 2004
Paperback
Unhinged, November 2003
Paperback
Wreck The Halls, November 2002
Paperback
Repair To Her Grave, August 2001
Mass Market Paperback
Wicked Fix, April 2000
Paperback / e-Book
Triple Witch, June 1999
Mass Market Paperback
The Dead Cat Bounce, September 1998
Paperback

Wreck The Halls
Sarah Graves

Home Repair is Homicide #5
Bantam
November 2002
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Featuring: Jacobia Tiptree; Ellie White
320 pages
ISBN: 0553582267
EAN: 9780553582260
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Mystery

When ex—Wall Streeter Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree bought a charming 1823 fixer-upper in tiny Eastport, Maine, she figured she’d also bought herself a tranquil, stress-free life. But Jake soon learned that appearances can be deceiving, and that even small towns have their share of dark secrets — including murder.

People hardly ever lock their doors in Eastport. So when Jake and her best pal, Ellie, arrive at Faye Anne Carmody’s kitchen door, they knock and walk right in. But though Christmas is just two weeks away, what they find is far from festive: a dazed Faye Anne covered with blood, and her no-good husband — the town butcher, Merle — nowhere in sight. Nowhere, that is, until Jake discovers his body — tidily wrapped in his own butcher paper....

It doesn’t take long for news of the murder to race through the small town, and just about everyone has a theory about the grisly crime that has robbed Eastport of its least-liked citizen. But while police chief Bob Arnold considers it an open-and-shut case, Jake and Ellie aren’t convinced of Faye Anne’s guilt. Jake has enough going on in her life without trying to investigate a murder. After all, she’s just married her longtime love, Wade, and the pair plan to spend the winter rehabilitating the paint-encrusted windows in Jake’s old house.

But Jake has to admit that there are a lot of details that don’t add up: for example, Faye Anne’s complaint that she was being stalked, and blood-splattered evidence at the crime scene that just doesn’t make sense. Then there is the diary that Faye Anne’s secret, sometime boyfriend claims is hidden somewhere in her house. Could Faye Anne’s own journal be the key to unlocking an even more fiendish murder plot, or is her double-crossing lover trying to frame her?

When yet another Eastport citizen turns up dead, Jake realizes the murderer’s trail began long before the night Merle Carmody died. But what keeps eluding her and Ellie is the motive behind the mystery. The truth is so close, they can almost taste it — but can they stop the shrewd killer before he chisels another victim’s name onto a tombstone?

Home Repair is Homicide

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