By Sarah Graves

Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree traded her power-broker lifestyles for a run-down dream residence in peaceable Eastport, Maine. however the home made fanatic is studying that regardless of how conscientiously you construct your house, homicide has a manner of slipping in in the course of the cracks….It’s a vivid June afternoon and old-house-fixer-upper Jake Tiptree is using via downeast Maine on an strange errand. She’s on the point of interview a wide, offended guy with a felony heritage. Jim Diamond may perhaps or will not be harassing his ex-wife with life-threatening letters, yet Jake promised her new housekeeper, Bella Diamond, she’d check out the problem. An ex-con and a deadbeat, Jim Diamond doesn’t have a background of violence…that is, no longer till Jake arrives at his condo and discovers killer has been there first.Suddenly Jake and her ally, Ellie White, locate themselves on the middle of a homicide with too many suspects and too few clues. And as though that’s no longer sufficient, Jake is now saddled with the manic Bella, whose walk in the park that she’ll be the following sufferer is fueling a supercompulsive neatness–one that threatens to scrub Jake and her long-suffering husband, Wade, out of condominium and home.Add to moose in her kitchen, a rebellious son with a behavior of dumping omit correct for pass over fallacious, and a hard ex of her personal, and Jake is already at wit’s finish. Then she will get be aware horde of her dad’s long-lost kin suggest to descend on Eastport, aspiring to be submit at her far-from-fixed-up fixer-upper.When the killer does strike back, it’s now not the place Jake expects…and the sufferer couldn’t be extra of a shock. For it is a case higher than the standard angry—ex-spouse kind, and now that Jake and Ellie have got themselves concerned, they’ve each one gained a unique position in a ruthless murderer’s grasp plan of greed, deception, and loss of life. And the prize? a couple of without end deepest rooms–six ft below!