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Tag Archives: Home Repair is Homicide
Bambi Go Home
Hello again from Sarah Graves, thinking today about innocent woodland creatures. Who belong, you should excuse my saying so, in the woods. Or if they eat up, befoul, and generally infest Eastport for very much longer, on my plate. I mean … Continue reading
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Tagged Bambi, deer, Eastport, Elmer Fudd, Home Repair is Homicide, hunting, Maine, Sandy Oliver, Sarah Graves, Thompson submachine gun, Working Waterfront
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Dig Dig Dig
Hello again from Sarah Graves, writing to you from the farthest northern reaches of the Arctic Circle…no, wait, I’m still in Eastport, Maine. It only feels like the Arctic north, partly due to the 47 inches of snow we got … Continue reading
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Tagged Eastport, Home Repair is Homicide, Jake Tiptree, Lizzie Snow, Maine, Sarah Graves, Winter at the Door
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Bullet Points
We had a burst of winter here in Eastport, snow all day and plows rumbling by outside. It’s a different place now from the one summer visitors experience, and in its way just as lovely. You can’t see him but … Continue reading
December
Hello again from Sarah Graves, writing to you from Eastport, Maine where the last rose of summer has created rose hips like those at left, as big and juicy as Bing cherries. I always plan to make rose hip jam … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyonce, Eastport, Home Repair is Homicide, James Ellroy, Maine, Mulholland Books, Perfidia, Sarah Graves
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Wits’ End
The title of this post illustrates one of the things I like most about writing. Predictably for a kid who was taught to write by the nuns, using that soft paper with three lines on it (two solid ones and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Eastport, Home Repair is Homicide, Maine, Sarah Graves
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The Tourists are Coming! The Tourists are Coming!
Well, and the summer people, too. Squads of them, cars and trailers and campers full, all of them with lobsters and blueberries on their minds and (let’s face it) money in their wallets. Not that we year-rounders are envious, or not … Continue reading
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Tagged Bat in the Belfry, Eastport, Home Repair is Homicide, Maine, Sarah Graves
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Hello Again from Eastport, Maine
Hello again from Sarah Graves, writing to you once more from Eastport, Maine. It’s been a long, cold, dark winter here, and quiet as an abandoned house, but now we are waking up: to mud when it’s raining, which it has … Continue reading
Things You Might Like
Hello again from Sarah Graves, who today is hunkered down on this icy little rock halfway out in the North Atlantic, or at least that’s how it feels. It’s the kind of day when your mother used to say you’d … Continue reading
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Tagged Eastport, guilty pleasures, Home Repair is Homicide, Maine, Sarah Graves
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Net Gain…I Think
When I was offered the chance to take over the Sarah Graves web address that Random House had been using, I grabbed it even though it came with a little baggage — namely, I had to build a new website … Continue reading
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Tagged Eastport, Facebook, Home Repair is Homicide, Maine Crime Writers, Sarah Graves, SiteSpinner, twitter, Web Pages for Dummies
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The Fix Is In
When I first came to Maine and started writing the Home Repair is Homicide mysteries, my husband and I also began fixing up a Very Old House here in Eastport. The writing/house fixup combination worked well because the house reminded me … Continue reading
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