Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery

Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
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When exâ€”Wall Streeter Jacobia â€œJakeâ€ Tiptree bought a charming 1823 fixer-upper in tiny Eastport, Maine, she figured sheâ€™d also bought herself a tranquil, stress-free life. But Jake soon learned that appearances can be deceiving, and that even small towns have their share of dark secrets â€” including murder.

Wreck The Halls

People hardly ever lock their doors in Eastport. So when Jake and her best pal, Ellie, arrive at Faye Anne Carmodyâ€™s kitchen door, they knock and walk right in. But though Christmas is just two weeks away, what they find is far from festive: a dazed Faye Anne covered with blood, and her no-good husband â€” the town butcher, Merle â€” nowhere in sight. Nowhere, that is, until Jake discovers his body â€” tidily wrapped in his own butcher paper....

It doesnâ€™t take long for news of the murder to race through the small town, and just about everyone has a theory about the grisly crime that has robbed Eastport of its least-liked citizen. But while police chief Bob Arnold considers it an open-and-shut case, Jake and Ellie arenâ€™t convinced of Faye Anneâ€™s guilt.

Jake has enough going on in her life without trying to investigate a murder. After all, sheâ€™s just married her longtime love, Wade, and the pair plan to spend the winter rehabilitating the paint-encrusted windows in Jakeâ€™s old house.

But Jake has to admit that there are a lot of details that donâ€™t add up: for example, Faye Anneâ€™s complaint that she was being stalked, and blood-splattered evidence at the crime scene that just doesnâ€™t make sense. Then there is the diary that Faye Anneâ€™s secret, sometime boyfriend claims is hidden somewhere in her house. Could Faye Anneâ€™s own journal be the key to unlocking an even more fiendish murder plot, or is her double-crossing lover trying to frame her?

When yet another Eastport citizen turns up dead, Jake realizes the murdererâ€™s trail began long before the night Merle Carmody died. But what keeps eluding her and Ellie is the motive behind the mystery. The truth is so close, they can almost taste it â€” but can they stop the shrewd killer before he chisels another victimâ€™s name onto a tombstone?
Country USA
Brand Bantam
Manufacturer Bantam
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780553582260
Color White
ReleaseDate 2002-10-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553582260

Country	USA
Brand	Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780553582260
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2002-10-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553582260

Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery

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