The Dead Cat Bounce (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780553578577)

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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 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 out to be a world-famous corporate raider, local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine. When Jake's best friend, quiet and dependable Ellie White, readily confesses to the murder, cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport.

Jake smells a cover-up, and begins poking into past history between McIlwaine and Ellie's family. But someone doesn't like nosy neighbors...and Jake's rustic refuge may become her final resting place.

Author: Sarah Graves
ISBN-10: 055357857X
ISBN-13: 9780553578577
Publisher: Bantam
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1998
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.08h x 4.32w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/20/1998 pg. 215