Home Repair is Homicide

Earliest Publication Date

2013

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2) A face at the window: a home repair is homicide mystery

As an epic nor'easter bears down on the idyllic island town of Eastport, Maine, Jacobia Tiptree hurries to prepare her antique house for the big blow, while the town battles to evacuate tourists and save the beloved 200-year-old Seaman's Church steeple, threatened by the storm. But when a local teen beauty-pageant winner from a troubled family is found murdered in the steeple's bell tower and Jake's son Sam's visiting childhood friend comes under...

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Earliest Publication Date

2009

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3) Crawlspace: a home repair is homicide mystery

As a toddler, in a room illuminated only by the flames of a fallen candle, Jacobia Tiptree watched a man kill her mother. Jake once believed that man to be her father. Now, thirty-five years after the murder, as the real killer's long-delayed trial is about to begin, the defendant has vanished. Jake tries to distract herself from murder with the constant attempts to keep her 1823 Federal-style fixer-upper from tumbling down on her head. But when her...

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Earliest Publication Date

2010

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4) Dead level: a home repair is homicide mystery

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree abandoned Wall Street to its bankruptcies and bailouts for a far more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home.

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Earliest Publication Date

2012

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, eBook

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5) Knockdown: a home repair is homicide mystery

Driving deep into the woods to her husband?s cottage with her best friend, Ellie White, in tow, Jake knows she has a challenging week ahead of her. Aside from saying goodbye to paved roads and indoor plumbing, Jake bet her husband that she could finish building the cottage porch in only a few days?a lofty goal for even the craftiest home renovator. But as Jake and Ellie set to work, they soon realize that they?re not alone. Someone is watching them...

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Earliest Publication Date

2011

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6) Mallets aforethought: a home repair is homicide mystery

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree discovers that the past she thought she'd laid to rest comes calling at her lovingly restored 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. Back in her days as a hotshot financial manager she did business with plenty of shady characters, but she's still baffled as to the identity of her nemesis--until she receives a photo of a murdered man.

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Earliest Publication Date

2004

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Book, Audiobook CD, eBook

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7) Nail biter: a home repair is homicide mystery

While renovating Eastport's Harlequin House, Jake Tiptree and her friend Ellie White discover a hidden room containing two bodies--one a woman dead since the 1920's, the other, the recently-deceased local real estate mogul, Hector Gosling. Hector and Ellie's husband George were bitter enemies, and George is arrested when evidence points to his guilt. As Jake and Ellie begin delving into the case, they realize that somewhere close by lurks a murderer...

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Earliest Publication Date

2005

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, eBook

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8) Repair to her grave: a home repair is homicide mystery

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree faces trouble when a coven of self-styled witches takes over her Eastport, Maine, rental property for Halloween, fundamentalist preacher Gene Dibble turns up dead, and she must do everything to find the culprit.

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Earliest Publication Date

2001

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Book, Audiobook CD

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9) The book of old houses: a home repair is homicide mystery

"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." -- Back cover.

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Earliest Publication Date

2008

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10) The dead cat bounce: a home repair is homicide mystery

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree has uncovered what looks to be a very old book while fixing up her 1823 house in Eastport, Maine. Local rare book expert Horace Robotham offers to take a look at it, but then dies in what appears to be a mugging gone wrong. Jake doesn't think too much about this until a stranger drives up to her house three weeks after Horace's death. He introduces himself as a friend of Horace's, says he might have some information about the...

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Earliest Publication Date

1998

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11) Tool & die: a home repair is homicide mystery

Jake finds the corpse of a world-famous corporate trader who used to be a local boy, and when her friend Ellie confesses to the murder, Jake smells a cover-up and investigates as cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport.

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Earliest Publication Date

2005

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The endless task of restoring her 1823 Federal home in Eastport, Maine, is the least of amateur sleuth Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree's problems. Sullen son Sam has dumped supportive girlfriend Maggie in favor of crass, materialistic and calculating troublemaker Kris. Bella, the housekeeper whose services Jake won as a prize, is driving every member of the household batty with her cleaning zeal. Jake's ex-husband, Victor, is ever ready to offer unhelpful...

12) Trap door: a home repair is homicide mystery

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Earliest Publication Date

2006

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13) Triple witch: a home repair is homicide mystery

Working hard to clean and restore her period Federal-style fixer-upper in Eastport, Maine, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree stumbles into the middle of a trio of baffling mysteries that may have an all-too-lethal common denominator, involving an old book hidden in her cellar, the appearance of her ex-husband's ghost, and the suicide of a local bad boy.

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Earliest Publication Date

1999

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Book, Audiobook CD

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Jake Tiptree moves to a small rural town for peace but finds a crime wave instead. Corpses are turning up all over town, and the first victim is the town bad boy and former sweetheart of Jake's friend and fellow sleuth, Ellie. Add a pair of unwelcome arrivals--Jake's ex-husband, and an unscrupulous New York ex-money mogul--and you've got a blueprint for danger.

14) Unhinged: a home repair is homicide mystery

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Earliest Publication Date

2003

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15) Wicked fix: a home repair is homicide mystery

The mysterious disappearence of Harriet Hollingworth, known to be intrusive in the affairs of others, lead to an investigation by Jake and her best friend Ellie. As Jake and Ellie search for clues, a series of lethal mishaps occur. Ellie's son and husband are imperiled and a visitor to Eastport is killed.

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Earliest Publication Date

2000

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16) Wreck the halls: a home repair is homicide mystery

Everyone in the island town of Eastport, Maine, is cursing the return of Reuben Tate, a bad boy who terrorized half the town in his youth. So no one is too upset when Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree, a transplant from Manhattan, and her friend Ellie White discover Reuben's dead body hanging from the cemetery gate. Jake had been busy getting her rambling old house ready for winter and working with her ex-husband, Victor, to open a trauma center, but their plans...

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Earliest Publication Date

2001

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