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 βJakeβ Tiptree turned profits
managing the fortunes of Manhattanβs 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 Jakeβs past has turned upβ¦a killer with a
blueprint for demolishing her new life.As a
home repair enthusiast, Jake knows that nothing lasts
foreverβnot 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 trialβuntil 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 sheβs overreacting, the truth is far worse
than even Jakeβs 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
theyβre connected to Campbell, those doubts are erased
when he calls her with a grim warning. But exactly
what Campbell wants from her isnβt clear, only that heβll
stop at nothing to hurt those closest to Jake. And his
first victims are the most defenseless of all. Suddenly
Jake canβt help but feel that her houseβand her lifeβhas
far too many windows. And in any one of them she might see
the face of her killer.
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