Jennie Bentley

With the help of a hunky handyman, Avery Baker, a former New York textile designer, begins fixing up her aunt's crumbling estate, until she discovers clues that lead to a missing local professor, in this first installment in a new mystery series that features home-renovation and design tips. Original.

Fatal Fixer-upper

Avery Baker becomes submerged in a mystery involving smuggling and long-buried secrets when she discovers that the secret room in her new house is linked to the recent murders of two women. Original.

Mortar and Murder

When the resident busybody in the condo development in which they are working meets an untimely demise, home renovators Avery Baker and her partner, Derek, decide to do some snooping of their own and discover that someone in the complex has a secret worth killing for. Original.

Wall-To-Wall Dead

Home renovator Avery Baker and her boyfriend, Derek, tackle an unusual project in the restoration of a believed-haunted ranch house that was the site of a decades-old murder, a job that is quickly sabotaged by unseen forces. By the author of Fatal Fixer-Upper. Original.

Spackled and Spooked

While renovating an old carriage house on behalf of a soon-to-wed friend, former New York designer Avery Baker stumbles across a lifeless body--a person known all too well by the blushing bride. Includes home renovation and design tips. Original.

Plaster and Poison

A designer and a handsome handyman hammer out the details of a cold case, in this must-read for lovers of HGTV’s home renovation shows. Avery Baker was once a New York textile designer, but inheriting her aunt's old Maine cottage has led her down a new career path-home renovation. Finding a property's hidden potential has rewards and challenges-especially when a mystery surfaces from behind the walls of a centuries-old house on an island that has more than its share of deadly secrets.

In this must-read for lovers of HGTV’s home renovation shows, a designer plumbs for clues to solve a highly-publicized murder. Avery and her hunky handyman boyfriend are renovating a house belonging to a local news anchor who's thrilled to be filmed as part of a home renovation show. But cable television fame proves fleeting when the man is murdered and Avery faces the task of nailing the killer. Fast.

Flipped Out

In this Do-It-Yourself mystery series that's perfect for lovers of HGTV home renovation shows, a designer looking for a quick house flip will discover that good fences don't always make good neighbors— Avery Baker never thought she’d leave Manhattan, until she inherited her aunt’s old Maine cottage and found her true calling—home renovation. But when Avery goes to work restoring a condominium, she discovers it’s another condo owner who’s been condemned... Avery and her partner, Derek, are fixing up a cute little condo in homey Waterfield, Maine, hoping for a quick turnaround and some extra money. It seems like a simple project—and Avery is looking forward to using her big-city experience with small spaces. But they didn’t expect to have their every move watched by the resident busybody in the condo, Hilda Shaw, who loves snooping on everyone’s comings and goings. When the busybody becomes a dead body, Avery suspects foul play. Soon she’s doing some snooping of her own—and it seems everyone in the complex has a secret. Could one of them be worth killing for? Avery needs to work fast, before someone decides to fix her...for good.

Wall-to-Wall Dead

While renovating another house in Waterfield, Maine - a project that will be filmed as part of a home-renovation TV show, Avery Baker and her handyman boyfriend Derek Ellis find their dreams of fame shattered by the discovery of a dead body. Original. 25,000 first printing.

In this Do-It-Yourself mystery series that's perfect for lovers of HGTV home renovation shows, a designer will attempt to put the finishing touches on a decades-old mystery. Avery Baker was a big city textile designer, until she inherited her aunt’s old Maine cottage and found her true calling—home renovation. But she never expected her latest job would come to such a bone-rattling dead end... For Avery and her husband Derek, renovating the Craftsman Bungalow was like stepping back in time. The quaint old home was just as its original owners had left it—from the beautiful butler’s pantry to the surprisingly exquisite ribbon tile. But it’s the attic that yields the most heart-stopping surprise. In a discreetly hidden antique crate, Avery finds a clue to a decades-old missing persons case. As Avery works on the house and delves deeper into the sinister story, it becomes clear that someone very crafty wants the Craftsman home’s secrets to stay that way!

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