Busy remodeling and restoring her 1853 Federal-style home
in Eastport, Maine, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree's past rears its
ugly head. When Jake was three years old, her mother was
murdered with Jake at her side. After all these years, the
killer, Ozzie Campbell, is finally going to trial. Just as
the trial is set to begin, Ozzie vanishes. His
disappearance coincides with Jake's feelings of being
watched. Jake's paranoia grows when her best friend's
toddler, Lee, and her babysitter disappear without a trace.
No one believes Jake that Campbell is behind the abduction.
She receives threats from Campbell, but he always makes
sure there's no evidence. Unable to convince the police,
Jake follows Campbell's instructions, knowing they will
lead her into a trap. However, Campbell's strategies are
more sinister. He keeps Jake off-balance as he manipulates
and terrorizes her. Campbell places Jake in one life-
threatening situation after another. She is vulnerable and
no one believes her.
A combination thriller mystery with emphasis on the
suspense, Ms. Graves writes an intense, pulse-pounding plot
in her new Home Repair is Homicide mystery. She has Jake
endure nail-biting situations where she must confront and
overcome her fears to save Lee and her own life. An
explosive conclusion makes this an all-night read.
Back in the day, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree turned profits
managing the fortunes of Manhattan’s most fortunate. Then
she fled the rat race for a stately old fixer-upper in
easygoing Eastport, Maine. But now a rat from an even
darker corner of Jake’s past has turned up…a killer with a
blueprint for demolishing her new life.
As a
home repair enthusiast, Jake knows that nothing lasts
forever—not windows or doors, not plaster or plumbing. And
not good fortune.
After more than three decades
eluding justice, the man who murdered her mother is
finally about to stand trial—until he vanishes into thin
air. Jake has a terrible foreboding of where Ozzie
Campbell will turn up next. And while the local police
chief is sure she’s overreacting, the truth is far worse
than even Jake’s worst fears.
With her normally
full house empty for at least another week, Jake has been
looking forward to the unaccustomed peace and quiet. Now
her cozy, well-loved home feels more like a big empty
death trap ready to snap shut. First a pair of out-of-
towners clearly not in Eastport for vacation turn up
asking questions about her. And if she has any doubt
they’re connected to Campbell, those doubts are erased
when he calls her with a grim warning.
But exactly
what Campbell wants from her isn’t clear, only that he’ll
stop at nothing to hurt those closest to Jake. And his
first victims are the most defenseless of all. Suddenly
Jake can’t help but feel that her house—and her life—has
far too many windows. And in any one of them she might see
the face of her killer.
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