Sarah Graves
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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While Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree has moved on from fixing up houses, she still can't resist the urge to snoop into the occasional murder. Something sinister is brewing in the kitchen of The Chocolate Moose - retired health inspector Alan Blake is found murdered. Jake's best friend Ellie never made a secret of her distaste for Alan. Now, with no alibi for the night of the murder, she's in a sticky situation with the police - and it's up to Jake to catch...
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Kensington Books
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English
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"This summer, Eastport's favorite lovebirds, kindergarten teacher Sharon Sweetwater and Coast Guard Captain Andy Devine, are getting married. The gala reception is sure to be the fête of the season, especially with a wedding-cake-sized whoopie pie courtesy of The Chocolate Moose. For Jake and Ellie, the custom-ordered confection will finally reel in some much-needed profits. But the celebratory air, and sweet smell of success, are ruined by foul...
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English
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Driving into the woods to her husband's cottage with her best friend, Ellie, Jake has a challenging week ahead of her -- she bet her husband that she could finish building the cottage porch in only a few days. But as the women work, they realize they're not alone. Prison escapee Dewey Hooper recognizes Jake right away. Her testimony got him sent away for murder, and here in the wilderness, he can finally exact his revenge. Determined to make payback...
4) Tool & die
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English
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Determined to spend the summer on house repairs, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree hires local house cleaner Bella Diamond to take care of her house and teenage son, Sam, but her plans take a backseat when her new housekeeper begins receiving death threats.
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English
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Jake Tiptree's onetime helper, Lizzie Snow, takes over as Eastport's police chief only to find herself stalked by a deadly adversary from her past.
Moving from Boston to remote Bearkill, Maine, isn't homicide cop Lizzie Snow's idea of a step up, and breaking away from tragedy and personal betrayal is at least a step in the right direction. But in the Great North Woods, something darker and more dangerous than punishing winter is also bound for Bearkill....
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In the fourth Death by Chocolate Mystery, Jacobia Jake Tiptree and Ellie White are fired up for Eastport, Maine's Annual Cookie Baking Contest. But when a cunning killer and a devastating fire threaten to ravage the quaint island town, Jake and Ellie must dip into another homemade homicide investigation before all they love goes up in smoke."--Publisher's description.
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Jake and Ellie are taking a break from perfecting their chocolate pizza recipe to cater a housewarming party hosted by movie icon Ingrid Merryfield. Miss Merryfield is famous for her old-Hollywood glamour. Her new home, Cliff House, has a reputation too--for being haunted. But she isn't concerned, and some of her guests even try to summon a spirit during the party, using a Ouija board. What arrives instead is a freak autumn storm that downs an ancient...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When the annual Pirate Festival blows into their small town, bakeshop owners Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White expect they'll be busy baking up a storm at The Chocolate Moose. When the body of celebrity foodie Henry Hadlyme is discovered in the Moose's basement, Jake is pegged for the murder. Who among Henry's numerous enemies scuttled him in the cellar? Alas, dead men tell no tales. Will Jake and Ellie find the real killer before...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Summer in Eastport means lobsters and blueberries, though tourists and locals alike always leave a little room for baked goods from The Chocolate Moose. This year's arts festival, featuring food, games, and rollicking local musicians, means even more sweet-toothed customers. But it's also bringing competition from a new rival, Choco's, that's trying to slice into the action. Choco's owner, Brad Fairway, is pulling sneaky stunts to divert Moose patrons...
10) Wreck the halls
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree expected a quiet life when she left Wall Street for Eastport, Maine. The calm is broken when the body of the widly hated town butcher is killed.
11) Unhinged
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English
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Already hobbled by a nasty tumble off a ladder, Jacobia Tiptree finds her life further complicated by the disappearance of a foul-minded curmudgeon, whose corpse turns up sandwiched between the walls of her cellar.
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As a toddler, in a room illuminated only by the flames of a fallen candle, Jacobia Tiptree watched a man kill her mother. Jake once believed that man to be her father. Now, thirty-five years later, as the real killer's long-delayed trial is about to begin, the defendant has vanished. Jake tries to distract herself from murder with constant attempts to keep her 1823 Federal-style fixer-upper from tumbling down on her head. But when her best friend's...
14) Nail biter
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree faces trouble when a coven of self-styled witches takes over her Eastport, Maine, rental property for Halloween, fundamentalist preacher Gene Dibble turns up dead, and she must do everything to find the culprit.
15) Trap door
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Working hard to clean and restore her period Federal-style fixer-upper in Eastport, Maine, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree stumbles into the middle of a trio of baffling mysteries that may have an all-too-lethal common denominator, involving an old book hidden in her cellar, the appearance of her ex-husband's ghost, and the suicide of a local bad boy.
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Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008, ©2007
Language
English
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Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree undertakes a new investigation into the murder of antiquarian book expert Horace Robotham during a random mugging, after his death is linked to an enigmatic old volume discovered in the cellar of her 1823 fixer-upper.
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is the tart-tongued, sharp-minded woman at the center of this quaintly crooked universe. It's Jake's past as a financial manager that gets her in deep trouble when a man seeks revenge against her. Years earlier, Jake denied a man a loan, and loan-shark enforcers killed him. Now his son is out for blood. He wants Jake to feel as hunted as his father was.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"After ten years as a captive of kidnapper Henry Gemmerle, Joan Crimmins eludes the media and spurns the family who failed to search for her. Instead, she settles in the remote Maine town of Bearkill. But when Gemmerle flees a prison clinic and a 16-year-old Bearkill girl vanishes, Aroostook County Sheriff's deputy Lizzie Snow knows that Joan's painful past has just become another young woman's horrifying future"--
19) Crawlspace
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree abandoned Wall Street to its bankruptcies and bailouts for a far more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home--Publisher's website.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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It is nearly midnight when the enormous bell in the belfry of All Faith Chapel -- silent for decades -- peals, startling awake the entire town of Eastport. Upon inspection of the steeple, the police uncover the body of local teenager Karen Hansen, who had climbed the belfry's dark, rickety stairs for a midnight rendezvous. But instead of an exciting new life, Karen met her death. Meanwhile, as an epic nor'easter bears down on the idyllic island town,...