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Renovations are Murder |
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Leslie Caine |
Leslie Caine lives
in Boulder,
Colorado, where
she is at work
on the next
Domestic Bliss
mystery.
The
Detective
Interior
designer Erin
Gilbert is paid
to bring spaces
to new life–not
to uncover
murder but it
always seems
that bodies are
being strewn in
all the wrong
places.
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Sarah Graves |
Sarah Graves lives
with her husband
John, a musician
and luthier, and
their black
Labrador Retriever
in a house very
much like the one
Jacobia Tiptree is
remodeling in
Eastport, Maine.
When she's not
writing Jake's
adventures, Sarah
works with her
husband on the
house (of course!)
and she plays the
5-string banjo (
not well, but
enthusiastically!)
Sarah has been a
writer (and a
reader!) all her
life." I sent my
first story to
McCall's magazine
when I was seven
or so," she says.
"It was about a
squirrel lost in
the woods. The
editors sent a
form rejection
letter, possibly
because it was not
very realistic for
a squirrel to be
lost in the
woods?" But this
began her literary
career of getting
creatures
(especially human
creatures) into
peril, and letting
them figure out
how to get
themselves out
again.
The
Detective
Jacobia "Jake"
Tiptree, a
former Wall St.
investment
banker, bids
farewell to her
upper-East Side
Manhattan
townhouse and
philandering
neurosurgeon
husband and buys
a derelict 1823
Federal
clapboard house
in the charming,
island town of
Eastport, Maine
that she plans
to renovate
despite her lack
of hands-on
knowledge.
Thanks to her
former financial
savvy, she can
afford to take
her time and do
it right and she
is aided by her
16-year-old son,
Sam--an academic
underachiever
with a talent
for fixing
things and her
new best friend,
Ellie White. But
if Jake thinks
her life in
picture
post-card Maine
is going to be
less
complicated,
she's in for a
big surprise.
She is forced to
turn amateur
sleuth when she
finds a body in
her fixer-upper
and Ellie
becomes the
prime suspect.
To make matters
worse, her ex,
Victor, decides
to buy the house
down the street
from her, which
threatens to
throw a monkey
wrench into her
developing
relationship
with harbor
pilot, Wade
Sorenson. Cabot
Cove was never
like this!
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