![]() ![]() Thank heaven you are back down on the ground before someone tells you the cathedral is designed to sway when the bells ring. Then he suggests stepping out on a ledge near the top of the tower, "because it is easier to talk." You step out, look down at the roof of the nave and find it is not easier for you to talk at all. Among other things you could go crazy." Some reassurance. He seeks to reassure: "It seems unlikely, but if someone were tied and bound up there for eight hours while they're ringing, it could happen. When you are back on the next level in the ringing room, again within hearing range of another person, you ask cathedral bellmaster Rick Dirksen if his bells could kill. You think of Dorothy Sayers' murder mystery, "The Nine Tailors," in which the victim dies from the cacophonous din of the bells in a British church tower. It weighs a mere 3,588 pounds, and it, along with seven other of the 10 bells, is banging away at the decibel level of a heavy-metal rock band.īetween the height and the sound, you feel giddy. The tenor bell, the largest, is right in front of you. It is the belfry at the top of Washington Cathedral's 301-foot tower on Mount St. “Graves makes rehabbing shutters and other chores suspenseful.You are standing, shakily, at the highest point in the city. “What distinguishes the novel are its likable, no-nonsense protagonist-narrator, her references to home repair that the author cleverly fits tongue-and-groove into the story and, especially, the detailed descriptions of the town.” - Los Angeles Times is a hoot.” - The New York Times Book Review “Just hearing her list the ways you can kill yourself fixing up an old house. “Graves’s trademarks are edgy, traditional mysteries peppered liberally with humor, and sprinkled with layered, well-written characters.” -Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier Praise for Sarah Graves and the Home Repair Is Homicide****series prose is sharp, smart, and witty.” - Crimespree Magazine It doesn’t hurt that she’s a damn good storyteller, to boot. “Graves does the Down East region justice, nailing not only the scents, sounds, sights, and people, but the culture. It’s a top-of-the-line story.” - RT Book Reviews “Nobody else can take a home repair project and turn it into a first-class mystery the way Graves can. “Stylishly suspenseful.” - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ![]() Belfry murders boston free#Can Jake and Ellie trust her? As a killer roams free and the townsfolk struggle against the pounding, screaming storm, the resulting tempest of gossip and suspicion rivals anything the Atlantic could brew up-and threatens to keep Jake and Ellie from putting the final nail in this cold-blooded case.Ĭomplete with Home Repair Is Homicide repair tips!īONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Sarah Graves's Winter at the Door. They discover an unexpected ally in newcomer Lizzie Snow, a woman from “away” who seemed to have blown into town with the nor’easter, and who also seems to know a lot about the mind of a killer. But when the news of Karen’s murder spreads and much of the evidence points to Jake’s likable houseguest, she and her sleuthing partner, Ellie White, get to work. An amateur detective, she has sworn off chasing criminals. Meanwhile, as an epic nor’easter bears down on the idyllic island town, Jake Tiptree hurries to shore up her ramshackle old house against the big blow. But instead of the promise of an exciting new life, Karen meets her death. Upon inspection of the steeple, the police uncover the body of local teenager Karen Hansen, who had climbed the belfry’s dark, rickety stairs for a midnight rendezvous. It is nearly midnight when the enormous bell in the belfry of All Faith Chapel-silent for decades-booms forth, startling awake the entire town of Eastport. ![]() But when a shocking murder rocks the small town of Eastport, Maine, Jake may be the next victim for whom the bell tolls. And when catching criminals, she’s been known to really bring down the hammer. When it comes to home repair, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree is a fervent wielder of power drills and paint brushes. ![]()
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