When DIY enthusiast Jacobia “Jake" Tiptree and her friend Ellie White agree to refurbish Eastport's most disreputable old dwelling, Harlequin House, pulling up the floorboards reveals something far more sinister than dry rot. A hidden trapdoor unearths the skeleton of a notorious 1920s flapper with a fresh corpse sitting neatly beside her. With a good old-fashioned Maine murder on their hands Jake and Ellie are hot on the trail of the murderer but this time more than their reputations may be on the line.
Jacobia Tiptree and her friend Ellie have volunteered to restore one of Eastport's Victorian residences to its previous grandeur, but when they discover a desicated corpse underneath a floorboard and then a fresher corpse beside the first, their troubles require more than carpentry skills. Lindsay Ellison does good character voices, but her reading is erratic. She doesn't engage the listener in the story because her reading is bumpy and doesn't flow. Worst of all, though, is her attempt at a Downeast Maine accent. It is downright bad. Perhaps it would have been better to hire someone who is familiar with the sounds of the Northeast, rather than someone who simply offers a broad "a" every now and then. J.P. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
About the Creator
Sarah Graves lives with her husband in Eastport, Maine, in the 1823 Federal-style house that helps inspire her books. She is the author of the popular Home Repair Is Homicide mysteries. Several titles in this series - including Repair to Her Grave, Mallets Aforethought, Unhinged, and Tool & Die - are available as Sound Library audiobooks.
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