The Dead Cat Bounce
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The Dead Cat Bounce by Sarah Graves
dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock's trading price after a sharp drop. Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick firmly planted in his cranium. Not much happens in her tiny Maine town, but that's about to change. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be a world-famous corporate raider, local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine. When Jake's best friend, quiet and dependable Ellie White, readily confesses to the murder, cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport. Jake smells a cover-up, and begins poking into past history between McIlwaine and Ellie's family. But someone doesn't like nosy neighbors.and Jake's rustic refuge may become her final resting place.Sarah Graves and her husband dwell in an 1823 Federal-style home in Eastport, Maine, the setting for her mystery novels. She's working on her next Home Repair Is Murder novel when she's not scraping, painting, glazing, sanding, hammering, or otherwise fixing (or failing to repair!) the old house.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780553578577 |
| ISBN 10 | 055357857X |
| Title | The Dead Cat Bounce |
| Author | Sarah Graves |
| Series | Home Repair Is Homicide |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1998-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |