- Hardcover: 260 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Books (27 Dec 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553803107
- ISBN-13: 978-0553803105
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,040,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree took the dangerous plunge from Wall Street power broker–to homeowner! Now the do-it-yourself enthusiast is about to discover that her own dream house is built on a foundation of murder.
Buying a beachfront fixer-upper to lease out to Eastport, Maine’s, burgeoning tourist crowd seems like a good idea to Jake Tiptree and her best friend, Ellie White. But working double-time as landladies to a coven of wannabe witches isn’t what they had in mind. And it only gets worse when Jake is called out one stormy night to make a repair–and stumbles on a dead body in the utility shed.
A small-time thief and street preacher with a particularly violent message, the deceased was no favorite of Jake’s–nor of anyone else in Eastport. But what’s he doing shot to death on Jake’s property? Jake’s bewitching tenants–including an ex-cop, a con man, and a mute teenage girl–claim to have been too busy conjuring spells to have heard or seen a thing. Then a member of the coven disappears without a trace and Jake doesn’t think it’s a case of witchcraft–but a kidnapping...or worse.
Scandal, secrets, and a mysterious box buried deep in the foundation of her own home are just the beginning of a mystery that threatens to bring Jake’s house–and life–crashing down. Now she and Ellie are racing to find a missing girl who may be the key to it all...or lead them to a killer holding the final nails to their coffins.
Praise for the Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries of Sarah Graves:
“Anyone who can mix slaughter and screwdrivers is a genius. Plus, anyone who has bought a home that needs even a new toilet seat is probably consumed with murderous thoughts.”—Boston Herald
“Like the old Victorian homes she describes...Graves’ stories seem to grow better with the passing of time....Readers who enjoy solving mysteries and fixing up older homes will appreciate Jake’s do-it-yourself expertise in both areas.”—Booklist
“A sleuth as tough as the nails she drives into the walls of her 1823 Federal home enhances a clever plot, which comes to an unexpected and explosive conclusion. Many will relish the vividly described Down East setting, but for anyone who’s ever enjoyed making a home repair it’s the accurate details of the restoration of Jake’s old house that will appeal.”—Publishers Weekly
“Think Diane Mott Davidson with a tool belt instead of recipes!”—Denver Post
Buying a beachfront fixer-upper to lease out to Eastport, Maine’s, burgeoning tourist crowd seems like a good idea to Jake Tiptree and her best friend, Ellie White. But working double-time as landladies to a coven of wannabe witches isn’t what they had in mind. And it only gets worse when Jake is called out one stormy night to make a repair–and stumbles on a dead body in the utility shed.
A small-time thief and street preacher with a particularly violent message, the deceased was no favorite of Jake’s–nor of anyone else in Eastport. But what’s he doing shot to death on Jake’s property? Jake’s bewitching tenants–including an ex-cop, a con man, and a mute teenage girl–claim to have been too busy conjuring spells to have heard or seen a thing. Then a member of the coven disappears without a trace and Jake doesn’t think it’s a case of witchcraft–but a kidnapping...or worse.
Scandal, secrets, and a mysterious box buried deep in the foundation of her own home are just the beginning of a mystery that threatens to bring Jake’s house–and life–crashing down. Now she and Ellie are racing to find a missing girl who may be the key to it all...or lead them to a killer holding the final nails to their coffins.
Praise for the Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries of Sarah Graves:
“Anyone who can mix slaughter and screwdrivers is a genius. Plus, anyone who has bought a home that needs even a new toilet seat is probably consumed with murderous thoughts.”—Boston Herald
“Like the old Victorian homes she describes...Graves’ stories seem to grow better with the passing of time....Readers who enjoy solving mysteries and fixing up older homes will appreciate Jake’s do-it-yourself expertise in both areas.”—Booklist
“A sleuth as tough as the nails she drives into the walls of her 1823 Federal home enhances a clever plot, which comes to an unexpected and explosive conclusion. Many will relish the vividly described Down East setting, but for anyone who’s ever enjoyed making a home repair it’s the accurate details of the restoration of Jake’s old house that will appeal.”—Publishers Weekly
“Think Diane Mott Davidson with a tool belt instead of recipes!”—Denver Post
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Quite Depressing
16 Mar 2006
Format:Hardcover
I love the "Home Repair is Homicide" series.. But I feel like they just keep getting more, and more depressing as the series continues.. It seems Jake loses touch with her son, and often becomes irrational and depressed. Not to mention what un-Godly business happens to Victor in this book.. I was in denial the entire time after I read the beginnings of his deal.. I was quite depressed and wanted badly to cry when I read the final words in this book.. I can't even begin to explain how terribly sad it was.. Especially if you're a big fan of this series and the characters.. After this installment it will never be the same..
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Not what I'd hoped
3 Feb 2006
Format:Hardcover
I've read all the books, buying them in HB when they started coming out that way, but the last few in the series have had trouble keeping my attention. The series seems to be wallowing along lines I don't much care for. Truthfully, I read "cozy" mysteries more for the characters than the plot, but cozy shouldn't require or entail all the characters are annoyingly cutesey. I liked the gruff fat police chief, the dyslexic son, and of course Victor. But the last few stories, Sam has become unrecognizable, Wade and the police chief seem to plod in and out without showing much depth and less realism as time goes on. What is left is not engaging to me as a reader. Elli's cuteness, always too much for my taste or believability, is now overly compounded to the point of hypoglycemia by having a doll like daughter to add to her doll like self. And the appearance several books ago of the back from the dead father, who conveniently and coincidentally is also a fix it up guy, in spite of being "on the run" for years was just too much for me. I've actually found myself reading the last couple of novels mostly to see what Victor was up to, who is the only character that seems to have remained intact and interesting, and whose pique helped counter the cloying sweetness of Elli and the fix it up dad. Obviously Elli, being the sort of Watson to the main character's Holmes (or vice versa) has to stay, but if some one had to go, why not the annoyingly saintly father?
But alas not, and in this book the one leaven remaining that once livened this series' lump has now been lost. Or to put it more in the theme Home Repair, Nail Biter put the nail in the coffin for this series for me. I'm sure the author had her reasons, but I can't see much reason to read any future installments in the series.
But alas not, and in this book the one leaven remaining that once livened this series' lump has now been lost. Or to put it more in the theme Home Repair, Nail Biter put the nail in the coffin for this series for me. I'm sure the author had her reasons, but I can't see much reason to read any future installments in the series.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
The End of the Road
5 Sep 2006
Format:Hardcover
I've had my ups and downs with this series, but have read every entry. There have been characters that I have always enjoyed in the series, George, Sam, though not recently, he seems to be suffering a late adolescence. Maggie has become a bit more flawed and therefore human; I enjoyed her "realness" before she truly had the depth to qualify as a fully formed character. There, of course, has always been Victor, the shining star, who brought edge and acerbic wit and humor to a town full of characters that were either too cutesy (Ellie and now her daughter), too wooden (Wade, forever and always, I'm convinced he is actually a blow-up doll with a looping track, more caricature than character, but I could overlook him considering his brief appearances, or when it comes to Jake recently, simply too neurotic.
I feel like this book is the turning point, if not for the series then for me. Actually, it isn't a turning point it is my jumping off point - I am officially done. The series has been a hodgepodge of okay and make it stop for quite a few books now, but I stayed hoping for a change. The change has come and it is detrimental, it has been alluded to in other posts so I won't elaborate, but I would ask Sarah Graves why and what are you thinking.
I have to question Jacobia's sanity and whether there is any truth to her shrewdness and New York know-it-all attitude. Forget that you rent your property to a coven of witches, but a man with only women and teenage girls in tow - I would ask coven or cult, shouldn't Jake do the same.
This book lacked feeling, the writing was disjointed, some plot points were convoluted, some of the character were so one-dimensional that I felt them tear in two as soon as I turned the page, and in the end I really could have cared less about who did it or why they did it, in fact I hardly cared that most of the characters were still standing and breathing.
Perhaps, enough is enough, if not for the author the definitely for me. Steer clear of this entry and read anew or reread the earlier books in the series it will be a better way to spend a few hours of your time.
I feel like this book is the turning point, if not for the series then for me. Actually, it isn't a turning point it is my jumping off point - I am officially done. The series has been a hodgepodge of okay and make it stop for quite a few books now, but I stayed hoping for a change. The change has come and it is detrimental, it has been alluded to in other posts so I won't elaborate, but I would ask Sarah Graves why and what are you thinking.
I have to question Jacobia's sanity and whether there is any truth to her shrewdness and New York know-it-all attitude. Forget that you rent your property to a coven of witches, but a man with only women and teenage girls in tow - I would ask coven or cult, shouldn't Jake do the same.
This book lacked feeling, the writing was disjointed, some plot points were convoluted, some of the character were so one-dimensional that I felt them tear in two as soon as I turned the page, and in the end I really could have cared less about who did it or why they did it, in fact I hardly cared that most of the characters were still standing and breathing.
Perhaps, enough is enough, if not for the author the definitely for me. Steer clear of this entry and read anew or reread the earlier books in the series it will be a better way to spend a few hours of your time.
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