Books by Sarah Graves and Complete Book Reviews
Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-80228-3
In her first hardcover in this popular series (Repair to Her Grave, etc.), Graves entertains with a cozy New England murder as she also treats such dark topics as domestic violence, stalking, date rape and drug abuse. When not do-it-yourselfing...
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Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-80229-0
When the most notorious snoop in Eastport, Maine, disappears, amateur detective and ex-stockbroker Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree suspects foul play in this winning addition to Graves's Home Repair Is Homicide series (Wreck the Halls, etc.)....
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Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-80308-2
While Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree met with accidents galore in last year's outing, Unhinged
, she faces more realistic challenges as wife, mother and amateur sleuth in this, the seventh page-turner in Graves's innovative cozy series. Jake,
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Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-80309-9
The endless task of restoring her 1823 Federal home in Eastport, Maine, is the least of amateur sleuth Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree's problems in Graves's eighth entertaining "Home Repair Is Homicide" mystery (after 2004's...
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Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $22 (260p) ISBN 978-0-553-80310-5
In Graves's neatly constructed ninth whodunit set in Maine (after 2004's Tool & Die
), former New York financial whiz Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her best friend, Ellie White, invest in a rental property in Quoddy Village ("the
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Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $22 (247p) ISBN 978-0-553-80429-4
Graves's humorous, well-constructed 10th home improvement cozy (after 2005's Nail Biter
) finds Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree, former money manager to the mob, still hard at work on her 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But she
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Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $22 (294p) ISBN 978-0-553-80430-0
In this multilayered cozy, the 11th in Graves’s home repair series (after 2006’s Trap Door
), Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree has uncovered what looks to be a very old book while fixing up her 1823 house in Eastport, Maine. Local rare
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Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $22 (311p) ISBN 978-0-553-80679-3
Ozzie Campbell disappears just before he's about to go on trial for murdering Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree's mother in front of the then three-year-old Jake in Graves's engrossing 12th mystery to feature the handywoman
and...
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Sarah Graves, Author . Bantam $25 (278p) ISBN 978-0-553-80680-9
In Graves's tepid 13th Home Repair Is Homicide mystery (after 2008's A Face at the Window
), true-crime writer Carolyn Rathbone and her unhappy assistant, Chip Hahn, arrive in Eastport, Maine, to research Randy Dodd, a psycho who faked his
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Sarah Graves, Author Crimeline $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-57857-7
With the advent of amateur sleuth Jacobia Tiptree, Eastport, Maine, could become as deadly as Cabot Cove. Having left the daily grind of her job as a financial adviser in New York, Jake, as she is known to her friends, has settled in an old house in
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Sarah Graves, Author Crimeline $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-57858-4
A crime wave is sweeping the quiet island town of Eastport, Maine. After discovering the dead body of Kenny Mumford, the town's petty thief and ne'er-do-well, Jacobia ""Jake"" Tiptree and her best friend, Ellie White, set out to catch the killer....
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Sarah Graves, Author Crimeline $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-57859-1
Everyone in the island town of Eastport, Maine, is cursing the return of Reuben Tate, a bad boy who terrorized half the town in his youth. So no one is too upset when Jacobia ""Jake"" Tiptree, a transplant from Manhattan, and her friend Ellie White...
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Sarah Graves, Bantam, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-440-42312-6
In chapter one of Graves's unsettling 14th Home Repair Is Homicide mystery (after 2009's Crawlspace), Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is scraping paint off the front steps of her 1823 Federal house in Eastport, Maine, when a guy in his 20s on a bicycle rides
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Sarah Graves. Bantam, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-53499-6
A weather front producing heavy rain, gale-force winds, and flooding descends on Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and other Eastport, Maine, residents in Graves’s patchwork 16th Home Repair Is Homicide mystery (after 2012’s Dead Level). Fourteen-year-old...
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Sarah Graves. Bantam, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-53501-6
In this promising first in a new series, cop Lizzie Snow, who was introduced in Graves’s 16th Home Repair Is Homicide mystery, 2013’s Bats in the Belfry, still has her doubts about leaving Boston for Bearkill, Maine, especially since her former...
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Sarah Graves. Bantam, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-39043-8
Graves’s dark second Lizzie Snow mystery (after 2015’s Winter at the Door) examines the ugly, soul-destroying things that mark the aftermath of a child abduction. At age 15, Jane Crimmins is kidnapped from a party in a New Haven, Conn., park, along...
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Sarah Graves. Kensington, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1128-1
Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree, the star of Graves’s Home Repair Is Homicide series (A Bat in the Belfrey, etc.), is back in this charming series launch. Jake and her friend Ellie White have opened a chocolate-themed bake shop, Chocolate Moose, in Eastport,
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Sarah Graves. Kensington, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1131-1
Graves’s enjoyable sequel to 2018’s Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake finds Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and her amateur sleuthing partner, Ellie White, struggling to pay the bills for their waterfront bakery, the Chocolate Moose, just before the start
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Sarah Graves. Kensington, $26 (282p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1134-2
Pirates have arrived in Eastport, Maine, for the Eastport Pirate Festival in Graves’s entertaining third Death by Chocolate mystery (after 2019’s Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake), and costumed tourists and townspeople are swashbuckling all over...
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Sarah Graves. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2919-4
The annual Cookie-Baking Contest is just a few days away in Graves’s well-crafted fourth Death by Chocolate mystery (after 2020’s Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut), and Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and Ellie White, the owners of the Chocolate Moose...
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Sarah Graves. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2922-4
The departure of summer tourists from Eastport, Maine, has brought the Chocolate Moose bakery’s business to a standstill in Graves’s appealing fifth Death by Chocolate mystery (after 2021’s Death by Snickerdoodle). Tired of fretting about the costs...
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Sarah Graves. Kensington, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-496-72925-5
In Graves’s delightful sixth Death by Chocolate mystery (after 2022’s Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake), candy store owner Brad Fairway’s unsavory business tactics leave a bitter taste in the mouths of chocolatiers Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and Ellie...
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