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Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It began with the mysterious disappearance of Harriet Hollingsworth-Eastport, Maine's snoopiest resident. Everyone is convinced the old busybody bolted out of town to escape her creditor-everyone except Jake and her best friend, Ellie, who suspect otherwise. But they'll need to come up with proof more sinister than a pair of abandoned binoculars. Just as Jake starts poking around for clues, things take a troubling turn for the worse. A suspicious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her friend, Ellie White, agree to refurbish Eastport's most disreputable old dwelling, Harlequin House, pulling up the floorboards reveals something far more sinister than dry rot. A hidden trapdoor unearths the skeleton of a notorious 1920s flapper with a fresh corpse sitting neatly beside her. With a good old-fashioned Maine murder on their hands, Jake and Ellie are hot on the trail of the murderer-but this time more...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 is not what...
Author
Series
Home Repair is Homicide Mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious book is unearthed from the foundation of Jake's 1823 fixer-upper, she immediately sends it off to local book historian Horace Robotham. After all, there must be a logical explanation for why the long-buried volume has her name in it-written in what looks suspiciously like blood. But all logic goes out the window when the book disappears-and Horace turns up dead. When two more victims turn up in a town better known for its scenic...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
After more than three decades eluding justice, the man who murdered Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree's 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.
Author
Series
A home repair is homicide mystery volume 14
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.