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"The town (Eastport) and its warmly wondrous citizens continue to enchant!"-- Booknews from The Poisoned PenWhen ex--Wall Streeter Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree bought a charming 1823 fixer-upper in tiny Eastport, Maine, she figured she'd also bought herself a tranquil, stress-free life. But Jake soon learned that appearances can be deceiving, and that even small towns have their share of dark secrets -- including murder.Wreck The HallsPeople hardly ever lock their doors in Eastport. So when Jake and her best pal, Ellie, arrive at Faye Anne Carmody's kitchen door, they knock and walk right in. But though Christmas is just two weeks away, what they find is far from festive: a dazed Faye Anne covered with blood, and her no-good husband -- the town butcher, Merle -- nowhere in sight. Nowhere, that is, until Jake discovers his body -- tidily wrapped in his own butcher paper.... It doesn't take long for news of the murder to race through the small town, and just about everyone has a theory about the grisly crime that has robbed Eastport of its least-liked citizen. But while police chief Bob Arnold considers it an open-and-shut case, Jake and Ellie aren't convinced of Faye Anne's guilt. Jake has enough going on in her life without trying to investigate a murder. After all, she's just married her longtime love, Wade, and the pair plan to spend the winter rehabilitating the paint-encrusted windows in Jake's old house. But Jake has to admit that there are a lot of details that don't add up: for example, Faye Anne's complaint that she was being stalked, and blood-splattered evidence at the crime scene that just doesn't make sense. Then there is the diary that Faye Anne's secret, sometime boyfriend claims is hidden somewhere in her house. Could Faye Anne's own journal be the key to unlocking an even more fiendish murder plot, or is her double-crossing lover trying to frame her?When yet another Eastport citizen turns up dead, Jake realizes the murderer's trail began long before the night Merle Carmody died. But what keeps eluding her and Ellie is the motive behind the mystery. The truth is so close, they can almost taste it -- but can they stop the shrewd killer before he chisels another victim's name onto a tombstone?From the Hardcover edition.
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Mystery, Women detectives, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Maintenance and repair, Jacobia Tiptree (Fictitious character), Dwellings, Ellie White (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Maine, fiction, Tiptree, jacobia (fictitious character), fictionPlaces
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Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery (Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries)
December 2005, Sound Library
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0792738136 9780792738138
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Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery (Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries)
December 2005, Sound Library
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0792738128 9780792738121
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