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"Homemaking" is about to take on a whole new meaning for Jane Jeffry, now that she's agreed to help the prosperouslydivorced Bitsy Burnside restore and redecorate a decrepit old neighborhood mansion. Bitsy's decision to employ an almost all-woman crew has prompted Jane's quick-witted best bud Shelley Nowack to dub the project, "the House of Seven Mabels" -- but it's also engendered some nasty ill will.
And when what begins as a series of anonymous, mean-spirited "pranks" ends up leaving one of the workwomen lying dead at the foot of a staircase, Jane and Shelley decide to try and nail the assassin. But the more Jane saws away at the truth, the more it appears that she may be painting herself into a corner, leaving herself no exit if a crafty killer decides to make Jane Jeffry the next demolition project.
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Jill Churchill has won the Agatha and Macavity Mystery Readers awards and was nominated for an Anthony Award for her bestselling Jane Jeffry series. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed Grace and Favor mysteries and lives in the Midwest.
Jane Jeffry and her best friend and neighbor, Shelley, are both invited by an old classmate, Bitsy, now rich and divorced, to be the decorators for a crumbling Victorian pile she hopes to renovate. Jane and Shelley are put off not only by the house but also by Bitsy's high-handedness and her contractor, a sharp and controlling sort. The contractor ends up dead soon after, and things begin to go wrong in the renovation, even before Jane and Shelley have a workable contract. The plot falls into some really infelicitous holes: there's a lot of feminist bashing (and the odd connection that childhood abuse would make one into a rabid feminist). The good parts, though, are what continue to make this series appealing: Jane's care for her children and her detective boyfriend, Mel, and her relationship with Shelley, food, and shopping. In this one, she not only buys herself and Todd, her youngest, new computers, but she also gets working on that historical romance she has always wanted to write. GraceAnne DeCandido
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