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I've been an avid reader all my life but, as anyone who stays home with youngsters will understand, my days of deeper reading have been put aside while my kids grow and yet I still crave some kind of adult reading. So I stumbled onto "cozy mysteries". Just enough meat to allow that full satisfied feel but not so much that I can't put it down to rescue an out of control science project. Sarah Graves Home Repair Homicide series fits in perfectly. You practically fall into the main character's life (In fact, while reading the first chapter, I had to check and make sure this was the first book in the series. I thought I was missing something.) The character's are real without that annoying perfection that creeps into a lot of lighter fiction. You enjoy spending a stolen half hour with them and when the mystery wraps up, you wonder whats next for Jake and Ellie. I'd like them for my neighbors.
I do have two gripes. I've read a few of the books and though I read them in order, I sometimes felt like something was missing. Graves is good at not repeating every historic detail each time (something that gets very old in most mystery series) but sometimes I feel like her time line is off. In one book, it's July and in the next, six months have passed but it's only November? Maybe I read it wrong.
The other gripe is even more minor. She continues to interrupt her own dialogue in strange places. A character will be speaking and Graves places the last word or two of her sentence after a phrase like "she waved her hand vaguely". For example, "I don't know," she waved her hand vaguely,"Ellie." I know. It's minor. After the first two books, my brain started automatically correcting for it and I don't notice it much any more.
All in all, a great series to start on...especially if you're a stay at home mom in need of intellectual stimulation. (And as a bonus, you can learn from Jake's way of sneaking home repair into spare time...)
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An interview with author Sarah Graves on National Public Radio prompted me to read this book. I am a murder mystery fan, and I love Maine and old houses so I figured this book couldn't miss for some light summer reading. I was wrong. The plot is improbable and the pace is slow; the books lumbers along. Characters are undeveloped, and, as another reviewer said, not particularly likeable--even the main character. Other books in the series may be better, but I am not likely to pick up another of them after reading this one.
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It is an excellent book I like anything written by Sarah Graves. It came on time and in excellent condtion. Would buy more books from this dealer.
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I've read many Sarah Graves mysteries and this is one of my favorites. I never knew home repair could be so interesting. If you like intrigue and mystery with real people, read this book!
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Jacobia Tiptree and her son, Sam, now live in Eastport, ME. Jacobia's neighbor, Ellie has helped her settle into the town and the community. When Jacobia goes to check the storeroom, she finds a body on the floor. Next thing she knows, Ellie White has confessed to the crime, there's no bail for Ellie, George Valentine is trying to shore up her storeroom and floor to handle the police traffic without caving in. Ellie wants Jacobia's help but doesn't want to see her. Everyone hated the victim, Threnody McIlwaine, including Ellie's father and mother who just lost all the money they had on a stock deal McIlwaine tipped them to. The FBI look like they're steamrolling Ellie to jail, and maybe a death penalty, and Jacobia doesn't know what to do next.
Once more we're afloat on a sea of clues. But these clues only make sense if you know a lot of the background and history of the people and the town. As readers we're in the same boat as Jacobia, who also didn't grow up in Eastport. We learn the ins and outs of the character's history as Jacobia learns it. As an Mainer in exile, I especially enjoy the bits of information that are dropped so casually into the background of the story that allow me to feel like I'm on a mini-vacation as well as helping vicariously to solve a murder.
The characters are believable and, as usual, multi-faceted and hard to predict as are most people. The clues are there and can be seen clearly once the book is finished. Well written with tight plotting, this is an older book well worth another read or finding a new audience if you've not read Sarah Graves before.
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