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Jacobia �Jake� Tiptree took the dangerous plunge from Wall Street power broker�to homeowner! Now the do-it-yourself enthusiast is about to discover that her own dream house is built on a foundation of murder. Buying a beachfront fixer-upper to lease out to Eastport, Maine�s, burgeoning tourist crowd seems like a good idea to Jake Tiptree and her best friend, Ellie White. But working double-time as landladies to a coven of wannabe witches isn�t what they had in mind. And it only gets worse when Jake is called out one stormy night to make a repair�and stumbles on a dead body in the utility shed. A small-time thief and street preacher with a particularly violent message, the deceased was no favorite of Jake�s�nor of anyone else in Eastport. But what�s he doing shot to death on Jake�s property? Jake�s bewitching tenants�including an ex-cop, a con man, and a mute teenage girl�claim to have been too busy conjuring spells to have heard or seen a thing. Then a member of the coven disappears without a trace and Jake doesn�t think it�s a case of witchcraft�but a kidnapping...or worse. Scandal, secrets, and a mysterious box buried deep in the foundation of her own home are just the beginning of a mystery that threatens to bring Jake�s house�and life�crashing down. Now she and Ellie are racing to find a missing girl who may be the key to it all...or lead them to a killer holding the final nails to their coffins. Praise for the Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries of Sarah Graves: �Anyone who can mix slaughter and screwdrivers is a genius. Plus, anyone who has bought a home that needs even a new toilet seat is probably consumed with murderous thoughts.��Boston Herald �Like the old Victorian homes she describes...Graves� stories seem to grow better with the passing of time....Readers who enjoy solving mysteries and fixing up older homes will appreciate Jake�s do-it-yourself expertise in both areas.��Booklist �A sleuth as tough as the nails she drives into the walls of her 1823 Federal home enhances a clever plot, which comes to an unexpected and explosive conclusion. Many will relish the vividly described Down East setting, but for anyone who�s ever enjoyed making a home repair it�s the accurate details of the restoration of Jake�s old house that will appeal.��Publishers Weekly �Think Diane Mott Davidson with a tool belt instead of recipes!��Denver Post From the Hardcover edition.