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I'm hoping to start some remodel work on my house this fall. With that in mind I picked up this book, it's qualifications being - it's a mystery and although it's fiction it deals with home repair (the first in the Home Repair is Homicide series) and it was sitting on my library's bookshelf. So I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it's a pretty good book. A 'cozy' set in Eastport Maine. I looked it up and the town is real. Apparently NPR did an interview with some of the locals back in 2008 about their reaction to these books being set in their town - no one could remember an actual murder ever occurring on the island but they like the books and the tourism it brings to Eastport. I may have to visit the island myself someday. The 'dead cat bounce' refers to a temporary rise in a stock's trading price after a sharp drop. The protagonist, Jacobia Tiptree, is a former wall street executive who now applies her talents to fixing up her old house and solving murders.

2022-10-21 05:44