Sarah Graves is the pen name of American mystery and crime novelist Mary Squibb.[1] Based in New York, her Home Repair is Homicide series follows transplanted New Yorker Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her friend Ellie White as they solve murders in Eastport, Maine, all while she repairs her centuries-old house.
Mary Squibb | |
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| Born | Mary Talbot |
| Pen name | Sarah Graves |
| Occupation | Crime novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Crime fiction, mystery fiction |
| Subject | Crime, thriller, mystery |
| Notable works | Dead Cat Bounce |
| Website | |
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This series and the author's real-life experience have been featured in The New York Times Home & Garden,[2] USA Today,[3] and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[4]
In 2012, Random House reported that Sarah Graves has "more than 1 million copies in print" and her "first ten titles in mass market combined move nearly 3,000 copies per month".[5]
In 2015, Sarah Graves' second series had its first book published, following ex-Boston homicide detective Lizzie Snow transplanted to Bearkill, Maine.
Bibliography
editSarah Graves has produced two series of books, and begun a third series.
Home Repair is Homicide (Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree)
edit- #1 The Dead Cat Bounce (1997)
- #2 Triple Witch (1999)
- #3 Wicked Fix (2000)
- #4 Repair to Her Grave (2001)
- #5 Wreck the Halls (2001)
- #6 Unhinged (2003)
- #7 Mallets Aforethought (2004)
- #8 Tool and Die (2004)
- #9 Nail Biter (2005)
- #10 Trap Door (2006)
- #11 The Book of Old Houses (2007)
- #12 A Face at the Window (2008)
- #13 Crawlspace (2009)
- #14 Knockdown (2011)
- #15 Dead Level (2012)
- #16 A Bat in the Belfry (2013)
Lizzie Snow
edit- #1 Winter at the Door (2015)
- #2 The Girls She Left Behind (2016)
Death By Chocolate (Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree)(A spin-off of Home Repair is Homicide)
edit- #1 Death by Cherry Chocolate Cheesecake (2018)
- #2 Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake (2019)
- #3 Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut (2020)
- #4 Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle (2021)
- #5 Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake (2022)
References
edit- ^ De Leon, Andrea (July 14, 2008). "Small-Town Murder In Sarah Graves' Eastport". NPR.
- ^ "In Writing, as in Murder, a Hammer Is So Handy." The New York Times Home & Garden, February 22, 2007
- ^ "Whodunit? Home renovator Sarah Graves." USA Today, February 21, 2003
- ^ D-I-Y can be murder Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb. 20, 2010
- ^ Random House Publishing Group Summer 2012 Title Information Catalog