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    Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
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    Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery

    By Sarah Graves

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    Do-it-yourself killer fixes small-town thug . . .

    For ex-Wall Streeter Jacobia Tiptree and her teenaged son, Sam, September promises tranquil days winter-proofing their rambling handyman's special of a home in Eastport, Maine. But there's nothing idyllic about this Down East autumn. For starters, the return of truly vicious native son Reuben Tate stirs up the town. And when somebody slits Reuben's throat and hangs his corpse on the cemetery gate, the police trace a bloodied scalpel to surgeon Victor Tiptree—Jacobia's former husband. Yet Jake knows her troublesome, trouble-prone ex is capable of just about anything except murder. Proving that, though, is another matter.

    Eastport is packed with tourists and former residents for the annual Salmon Festival—and Jake soon realizes any Eastporter, past or present, has motive for Tate's murder. To nail the real killer, Jake and her best friend, Ellie White, must probe a past as rotten as crumbling clapboard, while a secret hatred builds toward a series of murders even more brutal than Reuben Tate himself. . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateSep 9, 2009
    ISBN9780307570840
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    Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
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    Sarah Graves

    Sarah Graves lives with her husband in an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine, where her mystery novels are set. When she is not scraping, painting, glazing, sanding, hammering, or otherwise repairing (or failing to repair!) the old house, she is working on her next cozy mystery.

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    • 3/5
      This is the third in the Home Repair is Homicide series. There's a salmon festival going on in Eastport and Winter is coming on fast. Jake has lots and lots of weather stripping and leak finding to do as well as trying to exonerate her husband on the charge of murder.Reuben Tate, a guy no one liked in town, who was also a very, very bad act gets killed. As does another man. Then through a confluence of events Victor gets arrested for the murders.I was very surprised that somehow, even though Victor barely appeared physically in the book, the character seemed to permeate it. I have a love/hate feeling about the character of Victor. But, I think that's because of how well Graves writes the Jake/Victor relationship. A pull and push relationship.Just like the previous books I still really liked the old house repair stuff. The weather stripping scenes were cool, but the really realistic (i.e. depressing) part was when she went looking for a leak on the side of her house.And then there was the Ellie/Jake relationship. In this book, unlike the first two I finally felt as though the two of them were becoming closer friends, the friendship deepening and growing.All in all it was another good book in the series. Solid three star mystery which unfortunately was one of the less likable things about the mystery, because while it was a solid plot, I also sorta figured out very early on in this one the who in the who dun it.
    • 3/5
      This was a good listen in the car. Jacobia and her friend Ellie make a good team.
    • 4/5
      There are some funny moments in this book, tops among them when Wade undresses in his bedroom in front of Victor. Ha! I didn't quite get the motivation behind the murder (well, I did, but I didn't quite buy it), but I enjoyed getting to know the characters of Eastport better. I quite like Jacobia!
    • 4/5
      This was great. her novels really hold my attention whether it is a long flight or a saturday afternoon read.