With a total of 16(!) books, author Graves will keep readers on edge as amateur sleuth Jacobia Triptree, who formerly worked on Wall Street (hence the title of book 1- dead cat bounce is stock market jargon for “a small, temporary rise in a stock’s trading price after a sharp drop”), solves a series of crimes, along with the help of her best friend and her own teenage son. Will Jake’s rustic refuge become her final resting place? But poking into the dead man and her best friend’s past history causes someone to not like what she’s doing. Turns out the deceased is a world-famous corporate raider-turned billionaire, and Jacobia’s bestie Ellie confesses to his killing.Īs the cops and journalists from all over swarm into town, Jake (as she’s called) begins to smell a cover up. Soon, everything changes in sleepy Eastport, Maine. On a break from agonizing over rotting floor joists and sagging support beams in her old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Triptree stumbles upon a dead man with an ice pick crammed into his head in her storeroom. The trick is to solve the crime before becoming a construction casualty herself.įans of stories featuring paranormal elements will particularly enjoy this series.ĭead Cat Bounce: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery, book 1 by Sarah Graves Mel hopes that by tracking down his killer, she can rid herself of the ghostly presence of the murdered man. As she takes on a run-down Pacific Heights mansion, Mel (as she’s called) is visited by the ghost of a dead colleague who recently met his demise. But, in the world of cozy mysteries, there’s always room for a new book on an old topic!Īnother New York Times bestselling series, this one focuses on Melanie Turner, a woman who has made a name for herself remodeling historic houses in the San Francisco Bay Area. So, to see that the subject of renovating a haunted house had already been done made me feel a tad disappointed. Currently, I’m in the outlining stage for my third book in the Domestic Partners in Crime series, tentatively titled Haunted to Death. Happening upon this series, I was both excited and annoyed. If Walls Could Talk: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery, book 1 by Juliet Blackwell Other books see Avery and Derek flipping a supposedly haunted house (book 2: Spackled and Spooked), Avery moving from New York City to Maine and renovating her aunt’s old island cottage, only to find a mystery hidden behind the century-old walls (book 4: Mortar and Murder), and Avery and Derek discovering a scary surprise inside an antique crate that they discover up in the attic of the Craftsman Bungalow they’re working on. Together, the couple begins fixing up homes…before stepping in to help solve the mysterious disappearance of local professor. In the debut, a designer named Avery Baker learns the ins and outs of DIY from handsome handyman Derek Ellis. No relation to my partner Craig, Jennie Bentley’s cozy series boasts a total of 7 books. Taking on the task of conducting her own investigation, Shannon enlists her four best friends, her eccentric father, a couple of nosy neighbors, and an attractive crime writer, all determined to help our heroine clear her good name.Īs of this writing, there are a total of 10 books in the Fixer-Upper Mystery series and a dramatic adaptation for the Hallmark Movies & Mystery channel starring the singer Jewel.įatal Fixer-Upper : A Do-It-Yourself Mystery, book 1 by Jennie Bentley Hammer finds herself the prime murder suspect when Lighthouse Cove’s handsome new police chief learns of the threats she made after the guy got handsy with her. After a bad blind date with a local real estate agent, the guy is found dead in a run-down Victorian that Shannon’s been hired to rehab. While her home renovation and repair business is booming, Shannon’s love life could use a little work. In this New York Times bestselling series, contractor Shannon Hammer lives in the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove, California. While none of the following books includes a queer millennial couple like mine as its main characters, fans of Property Brothers, Inside Out, and my personal HGTV favorite, Rehab Addict (with fellow Detroiter Nicole Curtis), will find something to enjoy in each of these fun cozy mystery series.Ī High-End Finish: A Fixer-Upper Mystery, book 1 by Kate Carlisle It wasn’t until I’d started the research phase in my writing that I made a discovery: I wasn’t the first author to feature the topic of home renovation in my work.
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