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Four-Alarm Homicide

#6 in series

by Diane Kelly
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The sixth in the delightful cozy mystery series from Diane Kelly set in Nashville, TN—where the real estate market is to die for.

Some properties are too hot to handle...
Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck are hot for a historical property that has just come on the market—a fire station in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood that was built nearly a century ago.
The cousins have just begun the interior demolition work at the fire station when Joanna Hartzell, who lives in a townhouse around the corner, comes by with a plea for help. Joanna owns the right half of her building, which she proudly maintains in perfect condition, while the left side falls into disrepair: the seven adult children who inherited it years ago refuse to lift a finger on repairs. Never one to turn down a challenge, Whitney and Buck manage to acquire the rundown townhouse—though it turns out Joanna is only one of the many neighbors interested in buying the property once they've worked their magic.
Then Joanna shows up at the fire station confused and rambling, then collapses, never to recover. Alarm bells go off for Whitney: she suspects something—and someone—evil could be the real cause. Can she and Collin put the clues together and smoke out a killer?

  • Creators

  • Series

    A House-Flipper Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 23, 2024

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781250816092

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781250816092
      • File size: 5466 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      April 1, 2024
      House-flipping cousins get more than they bargained for, and not in a good way. Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck have won the bid to remodel a Nashville fire station into a home while leaving the historically significant exterior intact. Starting the project, they meet several neighbors, including Joanna Hartzell and her friend Gideon Koppelman. Joanna, who owns half of a two-family townhouse, is worried that with the other side abandoned by a quarrelsome family, her home might become damaged and devalued. Deciding to take a chance on buying the dilapidated townhouse from the Bottiglieri siblings, whose parents lived there before they died, the cousins run into plenty of problems but finally get the deal done. Several of the neighbors are eager to buy once the property is renovated, but apparently someone is not happy about this development, for there's arson in the fire station and vandalism in the townhouse. Joanna would like the townhouse as a home for her pregnant daughter's family, Gideon wants it as an investment, and his renters, D-Jay and Samira, need a place offering more room for their growing family. Already stressed out by her failure to find a wedding gown or a venue for her upcoming nuptials to police officer Collin Flynn, Whitney is pushed even further when Joanna staggers into the fire station and dies in her arms. A conversation with Whitney's pregnant best friend turns into a discussion of how fish can be loaded with mercury--and Whitney remembers that there was an awful lot of leftover seafood in Joanna's refrigerator. Working her way through a long list of people who might have wanted Joanna dead, Whitney is shocked to realize the police are looking at her as the killer. A surprising denouement, a clever murder weapon, and plenty of house-flipping tips.

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