The popular, much--loved Home Repair is Homicide series has taught countless mystery readers how to do home repairs -- and how to solve murders. Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is the tart-tongued, sharp-minded woman at the center of this quaintly crooked universe. It's Jake's past as a financial manager that gets her in deep trouble in Knockdown, when a man seeks revenge against her. Years earlier, Jake denied a man a loan, and loan-shark enforcers killed him. Now his son is out for blood. He wants Jake to feel as hunted as his father was.