Jacobia Tiptree saved her sanity - and her son, Sam - the day she abandoned Wall Street for the seacoast village of Eastport, Maine. In her new home, a charmingly dialpidated fixer-upper, she looks forward to repairing old radiators and restoring antique shutter for years to come. But Jake''s hopes of serenity are dashed when tiny Eastport erupts in a crime wave.

Hometown bad boy Kenny Mumford - old flame of Jake''s best fiend and fellow sleuth, Ellie White - is the first victim. When his corpse washes up on the beach at Prince''s Cove, all evidence points to a drowning... except the bullet hole in his forehead.

When bodies begin littering the Maine scenery, Jake and Ellie learn that the ante on Kenny''s small-town antics has been upped. Add a pair of unwelcome arrivals - Jake''s ex-husband, and an unscrupulous New York ex-money mogul - and you''ve got a blueprint for more deadly danger than one house can hold.

Jacobia Tiptree saved her sanity - and her son, Sam - the day she abandoned Wall Street for the seacoast village of Eastport, Maine. In her new home, a charmingly dialpidated fixer-upper, she looks forward to repairing old radiators and restoring antique shutter for years to come. But Jake''s hopes of serenity are dashed when tiny Eastport erupts in a crime wave.

Hometown bad boy Kenny Mumford - old flame of Jake''s best fiend and fellow sleuth, Ellie White - is the first victim. When his corpse washes up on the beach at Prince''s Cove, all evidence points to a drowning... except the bullet hole in his forehead.

When bodies begin littering the Maine scenery, Jake and Ellie learn that the ante on Kenny''s small-town antics has been upped. Add a pair of unwelcome arrivals - Jake''s ex-husband, and an unscrupulous New York ex-money mogul - and you''ve got a blueprint for more deadly danger than one house can hold.

Jacobia Tiptree saved her sanity - and her son, Sam - the day she abandoned Wall Street for the seacoast village of Eastport, Maine. In her new home, a charmingly dialpidated fixer-upper, she looks forward to repairing old radiators and restoring antique shutter for years to come. But Jake''s hopes of serenity are dashed when tiny Eastport erupts in a crime wave.

Hometown bad boy Kenny Mumford - old flame of Jake''s best fiend and fellow sleuth, Ellie White - is the first victim. When his corpse washes up on the beach at Prince''s Cove, all evidence points to a drowning... except the bullet hole in his forehead.

When bodies begin littering the Maine scenery, Jake and Ellie learn that the ante on Kenny''s small-town antics has been upped. Add a pair of unwelcome arrivals - Jake''s ex-husband, and an unscrupulous New York ex-money mogul - and you''ve got a blueprint for more deadly danger than one house can hold.