Tool & Die: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery

Jacobia Jake Tiptree traded her power-broker life for a run-down dream house in peaceful Eastport, Maine. But the do-it-yourself enthusiast is learning that no matter how carefully you build your home, murder has a way of slipping in through the cracks.Its a bright June afternoon and old-house-fixer-upper Jake Tiptree is driving through downeast Maine on an unusual errand. Shes getting ready to interview a large, angry man with a criminal history. Jim Diamond may or may not be harassing his ex-wife with life-threatening letters, but Jake promised her new housekeeper, Bella Diamond, shed look into the matter. An ex-con and a deadbeat, Jim Diamond doesnt have a history of violencethat is, not until Jake arrives at his apartment and discovers that a killer has been there first.