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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Home repair can be murder. Jacobia Tiptree and her teenage son are used to their Eastport, Maine, home attracting more than its share of houseguests. This year Jake is hoping the plaster dust will keep them away while she finally gets her gem of a fixer-upper into shape ' from doorknobs and chandeliers to leaky pipes to ghostly phenomena. But when the charming and mysterious Jonathan Raines appears on her doorstep ' and then just as suddenly disappears...
2) Unhinged
Author
Series
Home repair is homicide mystery volume 6
Language
English
Description
Already hobbled by a nasty tumble off a ladder, Jacobia Tiptree finds her life further complicated by the disappearance of a foul-minded curmudgeon, whose corpse turns up sandwiched between the walls of her cellar.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Jacobia Tiptree leaves her high-powered career for a quaint town in Maine, hoping to lead a more peaceful life while fixing up her dilapidated house, but when she uncovers a secret room with two corpses, she finds herself pulled into a bizarre murder mystery.
4) Tool & die
Author
Language
English
Description
Determined to spend the summer on house repairs, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree hires local house cleaner Bella Diamond to take care of her house and teenage son, Sam, but her plans take a backseat when her new housekeeper begins receiving death threats.
5) Nail biter
Author
Series
Home repair is homicide mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree faces trouble when a coven of self-styled witches takes over her Eastport, Maine, rental property for Halloween, fundamentalist preacher Eugene Dibble turns up dead, and she must do everything to find the culprit.
6) Trap door
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Working hard to restore her Federal-style fixer-upper in Eastport, Maine, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree stumbles into a trio of mysteries involving an old book hidden in her cellar, the appearance of her ex-husband's ghost, and the suicide of a local bad boy.
Author
Series
Home repair is homicide mystery volume 11
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious book with her name inscribed in it is unearthed from Jake's 1823 foundation, she sends it to local historian Horace Robotham hoping to learn something about this eerie discovery. Instead, the book disappears -- and Horace turns up dead.
9) Crawlspace
Author
Series
Home repair is homicide mystery volume 13
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree abandoned Wall Street for a more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But in Sarah Graves's chilling new mystery thriller, Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home. Everyone in Eastport thought murderer Randy Dodd had drowned -- there was plenty of evidence pointing to that fact. But now, six years later, a true-crime writer and...
10) Knockdown
Author
Series
Home repair is homicide mystery volume 14
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is the tart-tongued, sharp-minded woman at the center of this quaintly crooked universe. It's Jake's past as a financial manager that gets her in deep trouble when a man seeks revenge against her. Years earlier, Jake denied a man a loan, and loan-shark enforcers killed him. Now his son is out for blood. He wants Jake to feel as hunted as his father was.
11) Dead level
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Renovating her husband's long-neglected woodland cabin in Maine, Jake and her friend, Ellie, are vengefully targeted by an escaped prisoner who takes advantage of flooded road conditions.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When a local teen beauty-pageant winner from a troubled family is found murdered in the beloved 200-year-old Seaman's Church steeple, Jacobia Tiptree, while preparing for an epic nor-nor'easter, must wade through the rising waters of gossip and suspicion to find the truth.