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Trap Door (Home Repair is Homicide Mystery #10)
by
Sarah Graves
When Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree left behind her high-powered, high-risk career on Wall Street for the charming town of Eastport, Maine, she expected a quiet life spent fixing up her 1823 Federal-style house. But there are skeletons in her closet that may prove beyond repair...Suddenly the perils of the stock market pale in comparison to the murder, mayhem, and mystery of remo...more
Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages
Published
November 27th 2007
by Bantam
(first published 2006)
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Cozies are, well, cozy. An ordinary person, just like you and me, finds crime in her community, sometimes right at her door. Unlike you and me, she just has to solve it, every time, even when she knows from experience how likely things are to go wrong in such an equation. What I love about cozies, besides the just like you and me part, is the gimmicky aspect of the genre. This one is a caterer, that one is a librarian. Oh, there's a rich gal who solves crime with the help of a ghost. Some ...more
I'm afraid I didn't really enjoy this book. It's another faux-cozy, trying to combine a cozy mystery setting with big-city crime rings, assassins and psychopaths (which are generally considered cheating in the cozy genre). Perhaps the author was trying to appeal to readers of both genres, but it didn't work for me, and it didn't help that most of the main characters were just not very likeable, so I didn't much care what happened to them. There was also a throughline about a mysterious book foun...more
I’m afraid Sarah Graves has succumbed to the dread disease newbookawfulitis, also known as “Help! My standards have slipped and I can’t raise them!” After years of solidly enjoyable reads, her newest book is haphazard, vague, and baffling. In the previous book, Jake discovered an old manuscript in her basement and sent it off to be analyzed. Throughout this book, the men working on the project send excited “Is it really a…?” “Yes! It is a…!” “Should we tell her that she has a…?” e-mails to each ...more
I enjoy this series. although this volume may have been a mite more confusing than most. and her old partner in crime Jemmy makes a reappearance. and she left us hanging just a little about a mysterious book that was found in the end of the last book.
I think I may have caught her in another factual error. She makes reference to Kramden's perennial comment "to the moon Alice" and then makes an offhand comment about canned laughter. IIRC "The Honeymooners" started ...more
I think I may have caught her in another factual error. She makes reference to Kramden's perennial comment "to the moon Alice" and then makes an offhand comment about canned laughter. IIRC "The Honeymooners" started ...more
I enjoyed this book more than the last two that I read in the series. I am reading out of order because I'm getting them from the library as they become available. This book is slightly earlier in the series and retains the first-person narration and sense of humor that made the earlier books unique and enjoyable for me. I hope I find that Graves returns to this type of book after departing to another form.
I like this author. Deaths are too gruesome, like learning more about Maine, humorous main character & her sidekick, plot is interesting, and I didn't easily figure out who did it. Glad my sister brought this author's 2 latest books from the Home Repair is Homicide series. Look forward to reading the earlier ones in the series.
Wellll, it was entertaining. Not too deep, not very tightly written. There was a point (past the 75% mark) that I seriously considered abandoning the book because I really wasn't invested in finding out whodunit.
Full of red herrings and eliciting an occasional chuckle, the story built on existing characters in the series (though it is certainly not necessary to read any previous story for this to make sense).
The 'reveal' seemed a bit rushed; there were more pages afterw...more
Full of red herrings and eliciting an occasional chuckle, the story built on existing characters in the series (though it is certainly not necessary to read any previous story for this to make sense).
The 'reveal' seemed a bit rushed; there were more pages afterw...more
I really could not get into this book- kind of slapstick mystery??? Not my style!I was disappointed because I had read a synopsis of "Crawl Space" but now that I tried this one and see the style of writing, I won't bother to get the other!
I am enjoying this series--especially like the glimpse of life in Eastport, Maine.
The author writes with a lot of home repair and DIY hints and suggestions. Along with writing the plot of her murder mystery.
Pat
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someone looking for a light story line
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I just saw it at the library, sitting on the shelf!
Light story, pleasant diversion.
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One of her best.
A little bit long and too many irrelevant details...
cute premise..a women home improvement person always getting involved in some type of mystery. here a young boy is found strangled.some believed it was self inflicted...but not the main character.. she is out to find the real killer...it is a bit wordy and confusing..but ok..
I've come to really love Sarah Graves books because they are exciting, well written and take place in an area in which I am very familiar. Downeast Maine. It's fun to read a mystery that takes place in your own back yard.
Maureen
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Heard about Sarah Graves on NPR
This is my second Sarah Graves that I've read. I really like the first one -- but this one was only so-so. It's a fluffy airplaine read. I'll admit, I liked it, but won't write home about it.
As always I like the books in this series. The author has a bit of sarcasm in the humor which I totally relate to, and I like the characters in this series!
Fun, fast reading...
Fun, fast reading...
This one was a little slow, and the plot a little weak. Also there is information about the book discovered in her house in the previous book, but it doesn't resolve yet.
I just couldn't get into this one and abandoned it halfway through.
Okay, so it is not a book I would've been able to defend in my literature class - a good beach read for someone who likes mysteries.
i loved this one. i can't remember exactly what it's about, but if you like repairing homes and mysteries, then you should read it.
On hold because we haven't been driving the car in the snow.
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Sarah Graves lives with her husband John, a musician and luthier, and their black Labrador Retriever in a house very much like the one Jacobia Tiptree is remodeling in Eastport, Maine. When she's not writing Jake's adventures, Sarah works with her husband on the house and she plays the 5-string banjo.
Series:
* Home Repair is Homicide
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