Dead as a Door Knocker
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
The first in a brand new cosy series from Diane Kelly set in Nashville - where the real estate market is to die for.
Follow a talented real estate agent and renovation whiz whose life takes a turn when dead bodies begin turning up in fixer-uppers and abandoned properties. This heroine, with an eye for detail and a knack for spotting hidden flaws, must now use her investigative skills to unravel mysterious deaths. Aided by her trusty feline companion and occasional police assistance, she tackles cases that require uncovering not just construction plans, but murderous ones.
The first in a brand new cosy series from Diane Kelly set in Nashville - where the real estate market is to die for.
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES. . .Whitney Whitaker has scored the perfect piece of real estate: a ramshackle white Colonial at the top of a hill with views of downtown Nashville. What more could a self-taught home-improvement maven and occasional house-flipper ask for? Ideally, the property of Whitney’s dreams would not have come with a dead body blocking the entrance to the foyer. But Whitney, always quick to take heavy-duty matters into her own hands, also happens to be a skilled amateur sleuth. So that helps.AND SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET.Who is this older woman—and how did her corpse end up at the bottom of the staircase of this locked, unoccupied house? That is what Whitney, along with the support of her wood-working cousin Buck, Detective Collin Flynn, and, of course, feline partner-in-crime Sawdust, intends to find out. Her friendly-neighbor investigation takes a sharp turn, however, when Whitney discovers that the house’s former owner was a gourmet baker whose secret recipe for peach pie was to die for—perhaps literally. Now it’s up to Whitney to learn the truth about what happened before she loses this killer real-estate deal . . . and the killer comes knocking at her door.