Pen name Sarah Graves Name Sarah Graves Notable works Dead Cat Bounce | Nationality American Occupation Crime novelist Role Novelist | |
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Genre Crime fiction, mystery fiction Subject Crime, thriller, mystery Books The Dead Cat Bounce, Wreck the Halls, Triple Witch, The Book of Old Houses, A face at the window | ||
Sarah Graves is the pen name of American mystery and crime novelist Mary Squibb. Based in New York, her Home Repair is Homicide series follows transplanted New Yorker Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her friend Ellie White as they solve murders in Eastport, Maine, all while she repairs her centuries-old house.
This series and the author's real-life experience have been featured in The New York Times Home & Garden, USA Today, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
In 2012, Random House reported that she has "more than 1 million copies in print" and her "first ten titles in mass market combined move nearly 3,000 copies per month".
In 2015, her second series had its first book published, following ex-Boston homicide detective Lizzie Snow transplanted to Bearkill, Maine.