Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree abandoned Wall Street for a more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But in Sarah Graves's chilling new mystery thriller, Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home. Everyone in Eastport thought murderer Randy Dodd had drowned -- there was plenty of evidence pointing to that fact. But now, six years later, a true-crime writer and her assistant come to town to investigate what they're convinced is a death ...
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Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree abandoned Wall Street for a more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But in Sarah Graves's chilling new mystery thriller, Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home. Everyone in Eastport thought murderer Randy Dodd had drowned -- there was plenty of evidence pointing to that fact. But now, six years later, a true-crime writer and her assistant come to town to investigate what they're convinced is a death that was faked. And as it turns out, they're absolutely right. Jake, the resident amateur sleuth, has problems of her own: someone is phoning in anonymous death threats. This time though, it's Jake;s intention to sit out the local mystery. That is, until Dodd is discovered alive and is holding Jake's son hostage.
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Add this copy of Crawlspace: a Home Repair is Homicide Mystery (Center to cart. $36.69, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Center Point Pub.
I was disappointed in this outing of the Home Repair is Homicide Mystery series. What makes a good series are the characters from the previous books. They were there, but the focus was not on them. Instead this book focused on two true crime writers and that made the familiar characters play second fiddle.
