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Jacobia Tiptree gave up her Financial Consultant job in New York City to move to Eastport Maine, partly because she was sick of her job, but mainly to get her teenage son away from bad influences which had turned him into a drug addict as a young teenager.

Things had really turned around since she bought her fixer-upper house and has spent the last years turning her house into a home and solving all the murders that suddenly seem to occur on a regular basis in Eastport.

Now Jake and her best friend Ellie White have bought a beachfront house, planning on fixing it up and renting. But when a coven of witches asks to rent the house, they go ahead and do it before doing the necessary repairs, which results in almost daily excursions to the house as this group seems unable to change lightbulbs, let alone fix any other minor problem that seems to come up.

It's on one of these trips that Jake trips over the body of Eugene Dibble in the shed behind the house.

Then Wanda, the teenage, mute daughter of one of the renters disappears, Jake goes into full detective mode as she is not only determined to solve the murder, but also to find the missing teenager, who she believes is in horrible danger.

Highlights:

Victor - Jake's ex-husband, A prominent brain surgeon. In the first book in this series, when this guy showed up, I groaned. I'm sick of cozy's thinking the lead always have to have a jerk of a husband, boyfriend, ex-husband, ex-boyfriend involved in her life. But as the series has evolved, so has Victor. He's gone from annoying jerk, to the funniest character in the book. What he lacks in social skills, he more than makes up for his giving up his career, moving to Eastport and starting a trauma clinic.

George Valentine - Local Handyman, married to Ellie White. He's the guy who can fix anything and seems to have a lot more common sense than a lot of other characters in the book.

Wade - He's the harbor pilot and gun repairer. The reasons I like him so much, is that he's very helpful to Jake but stays out of all the drama involving Victor, Jake & their son Sam.

Lowlights

The mystery. Most of the mysteries have been interesting, but this was boring. If you're going to use child abuse as part of a storyline, please don't have everyone claim they were abused. Several false stories are told about abuse in the book, just to hide real motives. The plot behind the murder is so complicated, when all the killer had to do, (since they were tracking their victim) is to walk up to them one night and shoot them, as there was no real connection that would have made the police suspect the killer.

Jake & Ellie take such ridiculous risks in this story and because of their stupidity, real innocent people are severely injured or killed. (I'm not saying they're nice, but they are innocent in this case).

The Ending. In most of the reviews we're all complaining about the same thing, but don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't read it yet. The one problem with doing something irreversible, is that it can't be corrected. There is no way to fix this and it changes the entire complexion of the storyline.

Small Questions

Jake was a big time Financial Consultant in New York, she had to have made millions, yet she is always worried that she can't afford to fix her house up? Victor was one of the most prominent surgeons in the world, and has to have made millions also, yet she resents the money he spends on their son.

Why did Ellie White keep her maiden name when she married George Valentine? Ellie is always worried about people talking about her and being part of gossip and keeping up traditions. I would thinking keeping your maiden name would have caused a lot of talk in this small town. And after reading, "Dead Cat Bounce" the first book in the series, where you got to meet Ellie's parents you would thinking changing her name would be at the top of her list.


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Nail Biter A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery Sarah Graves 9780553585797 Books Reviews

Love this series
If you like this series, and I do, this is quite an OK book. A little more than usual of running blindly into stupidly risky situations, a bit too much for my taste, and more character stuff than clever plot development, but I find the characters OK. Some others in the series are better, but I wouldn't want to miss any so far and not this one either.
I always enjoy her books and this is one of my favorite mystery series. It is a easy read, enjoyable but not a lot of stress.
Great winter reading.
Love the Home Repair is Homicide Mysteries.
Another novel where the cover blurb didn't line up with the story.

The biggest one is in the opening line "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." Nowhere in the book does this happen at all.

The dead man Jake discovers is known throughout the town as a street preacher of the fire-and-brimstone school, yet none investigating his death thinks to look into this aspect of his life as a motive for his murder, especially since hew was murdered in a home occupied by a group of 'wannabe' witches.

The ending, too, had a bit of Deus ex Machina ending in that the guilty party was suddenly revealed with no clue or hint earlier that this person might be the killer.

All in all, a very lame entry into what so far has been a very enjoyable series.
I think this is the last home repair mystery I will purchase. The author has so much repetition from book to book along with pages of DIY repair projects that the actual story seems to occupy not much space. I have skipped over so many pages and it seems like nail biter was more than the others that though I really like the characters, I'm just tired of wading through all the other stuff.
Jacobia Tiptree gave up her Financial Consultant job in New York City to move to Eastport Maine, partly because she was sick of her job, but mainly to get her teenage son away from bad influences which had turned him into a drug addict as a young teenager.

Things had really turned around since she bought her fixer-upper house and has spent the last years turning her house into a home and solving all the murders that suddenly seem to occur on a regular basis in Eastport.

Now Jake and her best friend Ellie White have bought a beachfront house, planning on fixing it up and renting. But when a coven of witches asks to rent the house, they go ahead and do it before doing the necessary repairs, which results in almost daily excursions to the house as this group seems unable to change lightbulbs, let alone fix any other minor problem that seems to come up.

It's on one of these trips that Jake trips over the body of Eugene Dibble in the shed behind the house.

Then Wanda, the teenage, mute daughter of one of the renters disappears, Jake goes into full detective mode as she is not only determined to solve the murder, but also to find the missing teenager, who she believes is in horrible danger.

Highlights

Victor - Jake's ex-husband, A prominent brain surgeon. In the first book in this series, when this guy showed up, I groaned. I'm sick of cozy's thinking the lead always have to have a jerk of a husband, boyfriend, ex-husband, ex-boyfriend involved in her life. But as the series has evolved, so has Victor. He's gone from annoying jerk, to the funniest character in the book. What he lacks in social skills, he more than makes up for his giving up his career, moving to Eastport and starting a trauma clinic.

George Valentine - Local Handyman, married to Ellie White. He's the guy who can fix anything and seems to have a lot more common sense than a lot of other characters in the book.

Wade - He's the harbor pilot and gun repairer. The reasons I like him so much, is that he's very helpful to Jake but stays out of all the drama involving Victor, Jake & their son Sam.

Lowlights

The mystery. Most of the mysteries have been interesting, but this was boring. If you're going to use child abuse as part of a storyline, please don't have everyone claim they were abused. Several false stories are told about abuse in the book, just to hide real motives. The plot behind the murder is so complicated, when all the killer had to do, (since they were tracking their victim) is to walk up to them one night and shoot them, as there was no real connection that would have made the police suspect the killer.

Jake & Ellie take such ridiculous risks in this story and because of their stupidity, real innocent people are severely injured or killed. (I'm not saying they're nice, but they are innocent in this case).

The Ending. In most of the reviews we're all complaining about the same thing, but don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't read it yet. The one problem with doing something irreversible, is that it can't be corrected. There is no way to fix this and it changes the entire complexion of the storyline.

Small Questions

Jake was a big time Financial Consultant in New York, she had to have made millions, yet she is always worried that she can't afford to fix her house up? Victor was one of the most prominent surgeons in the world, and has to have made millions also, yet she resents the money he spends on their son.

Why did Ellie White keep her maiden name when she married George Valentine? Ellie is always worried about people talking about her and being part of gossip and keeping up traditions. I would thinking keeping your maiden name would have caused a lot of talk in this small town. And after reading, "Dead Cat Bounce" the first book in the series, where you got to meet Ellie's parents you would thinking changing her name would be at the top of her list.