{"id":1958,"date":"2013-06-21T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/by-tracey-arial-www_21\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:47","slug":"by-tracey-arial-www_21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/by-tracey-arial-www_21\/","title":{"rendered":"Home renovation tips integral part of entertaining mystery series"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tracey Arial<\/b><\/p>\n

\nwww.arialview.ca<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nLife in a small Maine town, the life and death risks taken by people who work on the sea and the challenges of raising a teenager whose father used to abuse you, are just some of the insights readers get by reading Sarah Graves\u2019 Home Repair is Homicide<\/i> mystery series.<\/p>\n

More than all these benefits though, are the many entertaining hints about how we might repair an old house.<\/p>\n

\nThe notched side pieces on wooden steps are called stringers. To replace them exactly, use the old ones as templates on new lumber, then cut notches along the lines you\u2019ve drawn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nTiptree\u2019s Tips<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our sometimes sleuth Jacobia Tiptree spends most of her time repairing her antique house in the town of Eastport. Every now and then she finds a body or stumbles onto crooks and becomes an amateur detective.<\/p>\n

The stories are funny, surprisingly-light given their complicated content. The characters are surprisingly life-like too. I feel like I know Jake, as Jacobia is called, Sam, Ellie and George who are key characters in every story.<\/p>\n

The series includes:<\/p>\n

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