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Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
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Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery Mass market paperback - 2000

by Sarah Graves

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Jake Tiptree, the home improvement whodunit expert from "The Triple Witch" and "The Dead Cat Bounce, " discovers a corpse hanging from the gate of Hillside Cemetery. The murder weapon appears to be a scalpel from the medical bag of Jake's ex-husband. Though she can't stand the man, she knows he's not a murderer, and sets out to find the truth.

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Bantam, April 2000. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Good.
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  • Title Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
  • Author Sarah Graves
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Later printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bantam, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date April 2000
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 251322
  • ISBN 9780553578591 / 0553578596
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.91 x 4.17 x 0.84 in (17.55 x 10.59 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Geographic Orientation: Maine
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Dwellings - Maintenance and repair
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001555240
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Do-it-yourself killer fixes small-town thug...For ex-Wall Streeter Jacobia Tiptree and her teenaged son, Sam, September promises tranquil days winter-proofing their rambling handyman's special of a home in Eastport, Maine. But there's nothing idyllic about this Down East autumn. For starters, the return of truly vicious native son Reuben Tate stirs up the town. And when somebody slits Reuben's throat and hangs his corpse on the cemetery gate, the police trace a bloodied scalpel to surgeon Victor Tiptree--Jacobia's former husband. Yet Jake knows her troublesome, trouble-prone ex is capable of just about anything except murder. Proving that, though, is another matter.Eastport is packed with tourists and former residents for the annual Salmon Festival--and Jake soon realizes any Eastporter, past or present, has motive for Tate's murder. To nail the real killer, Jake and her best friend, Ellie White, must probe a past as rotten as crumbling clapboard, while a secret hatred builds toward a series of murders even more brutal than Reuben Tate himself....From the Paperback edition.

From the publisher

Sarah Graves lives with her husband in Eastport, Maine, where her mystery novels are set. She is currently working on her twelfth Home Repair Is Homicide novel.

From the rear cover

For ex-Wall Streeter Jacobia Tiptree and her teenaged son, Sam, September promises tranquil days winter-proofing their rambling handyman's special of a home in Eastport, Maine. But there's nothing idyllic about this Down East autumn. For starters, the return of truly vicious native son Reuben Tate stirs up the town. And when somebody slits Reuben's throat and hangs his corpse on the cemetery gate, the police trace a bloodied scalpel to surgeon Victor Tiptree -- Jacobia's former husband. Yet Jake knows her troublesome, trouble-prone ex is capable of just about anything except murder.

Proving that, though, is another matter. Eastport is packed with tourists and former residents for the annual Salmon Festival -- and Jake soon realizes any Eastporter, past or present, has motive for Tate's murder. To nail the real killer, Jake and her best friend, Ellie White, must probe a past as rotten as crumbling clapboard, while a secret hatred builds toward a series of murders even more brutal than Reuben Tate himself...

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Media reviews

"The town [Eastport] and its warmly wondrous citizens continue to enchant."—Booknews from The Poisoned Pen

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 03/06/2000, Page 89

About the author

Sarah Graves lives with her husband in Eastport, Maine, where her mystery novels are set. She is currently working on her twelfth Home Repair Is Homicide novel.

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