Knockdown: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery - Plot & Excerpts
said Ellie later that morning. They were out in the backyard of Jake’s house on Key Street, mixing concrete. Jake attached the hose to the outdoor spigot. They could have used premixed concrete and saved themselves some trouble. But she had some bags of sand to get rid of, left over from other projects, and opportunities to use fifty-pound bags of sand didn’t just happen along every day. Thank goodness. “Nope,” she said. The morning had bloomed into a day of sparkling sunshine. The warmed air was fruity with the perfume of blooming beach roses. But a fog bank hung on the horizon. “I wish the early Romans were doing it right now, though, instead of me,” she added. While Ellie gathered more tools and equipment, Jake slammed the last nail into the last of the four plywood boxes she was building. Forms, they were called. Sam wanted some anchors for a few rowboats he’d fixed up and was planning to sell, out at the Boat School, and there were still enough tacky patches on the porch primer to keep her from working any more on that project today.
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