Tool & Die: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery

Tool & Die: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery

Jacobia â€œJakeâ€ Tiptree traded her power-broker life for a run-down dream house in peaceful Eastport, Maine. But the do-it-yourself enthusiast is learning that no matter how carefully you build your home, murder has a way of slipping in through the cracksâ€¦.

Itâ€™s a bright June afternoon and old-house-fixer-upper Jake Tiptree is driving through downeast Maine on an unusual errand. Sheâ€™s getting ready to interview a large, angry man with a criminal history. Jim Diamond may or may not be harassing his ex-wife with life-threatening letters, but Jake promised her new housekeeper, Bella Diamond, sheâ€™d look into the matter. An ex-con and a deadbeat, Jim Diamond doesnâ€™t have a history of violenceâ€¦that is, not until Jake arrives at his apartment and discovers that a killer has been there first.

Suddenly Jake and her best friend, Ellie White, find themselves at the center of a murder with too many suspects and too few clues. And as if thatâ€™s not enough, Jake is now saddled with the manic Bella, whose certainty that sheâ€™ll be the next victim is fueling a supercompulsive neatnessâ€“one that threatens to clean Jake and her long-suffering husband, Wade, out of house and home.

Add to that a moose in her kitchen, a rebellious son with a habit of dumping Miss Right for Miss Wrong, and a troublesome ex of her own, and Jake is already at witâ€™s end. Then she gets word that a horde of her dadâ€™s long-lost relatives mean to descend on Eastport, intending to be put up at her far-from-fixed-up fixer-upper.

When the killer does strike again, itâ€™s not where Jake expectsâ€¦and the victim couldnâ€™t be more of a surprise. For this is a case bigger than the usual angryâ€”ex-spouse variety, and now that Jake and Ellie have gotten themselves involved, theyâ€™ve each won a special place in a ruthless murdererâ€™s master plan of greed, deception, and death. And the prize? A pair of eternally private roomsâ€“six feet under!
Country USA
Brand Bantam
Manufacturer Bantam
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780553585780
Color Gold
ReleaseDate 2005-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553585780

Country	USA
Brand	Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780553585780
Color	Gold
ReleaseDate	2005-10-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553585780

Tool & Die: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery

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