Author: sarahgraves
When a pirate festival blows into their small town, bakeshop owners Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White expect they’ll be busy baking up a storm, but instead they find themselves marooned in a new murder investigation after someone kills a well-known food writer and TV personality . . . Everything is shipshape at Jake and Ellie’s new waterfront bakery, The Chocolate Moose, … Chocolate Moose, especially now that the annual Pirate Festival is dropping anchor in their quaint island village of Eastport, Maine. Jake and Ellie are ready for the bounty of tourists sure to flood their…
When a poisoned milkshake leads to murder, can baker Jake and her best friend, Ellie, rescue their quaint Maine town from a killer? “A trifecta of coziness: plucky heroines, sweet treats, and just enough puzzlement to keep you on your toes” (Kirkus Reviews).
Jacobia is excited to open a new bakery with her friend Ellie in their cozy Maine town. But when a health inspector turns up dead in their kitchen, she has to solve the murder to save their dreams! “Charming” (Publishers Weekly).
From an author called “Diane Mott Davidson with a tool belt instead of recipes” (The Denver Post): Single mom Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree investigates a string of murders in her town… all while renovating her centuries-old home. A charming mystery full of “depth and warm humor” ().
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 … 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…