The Dead Cat Bounce is the first in the Home Repair is Homicide series by Sarah Graves. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. This one is on my list of best book titles, along with
The Cannibal Who Overate and others of that ilk. Oh yeah, I read it and liked it pretty well in DTB days...
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Cat-Boun...dp/B002RLBKSG/
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-dead-cat-bounce
Spoiler:
Quote:
dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock's trading price after a sharp drop.
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.
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