It seemed the safest way to kill off her professors. She also studied acting and singing, toiled in vineyards, collected books, joined a commune, sold fried chicken, modeled spring fashions and worked for a cruise ship line, but it was the year she spent in law school that finally drove her to begin writing fiction. She traveled the world as a Dating Game chaperone and performed strange acts of silliness on The Gong Show. Visit Kate online at or Bestselling author Kate Carlisle spent over twenty years working in television production as an Associate Director for game and variety shows, including The Midnight Special, Solid Gold and The Gong Show. When another victim turns up dead, Shannon is convinced she must find the killer before someone else gets nailed…. But his death is soon ruled a homicide, and shady suspects begin popping out of the woodwork. Everyone knows Jesse had a penchant for constructing tall tales-like the one about him having a hot new girlfriend. Someone suggests that a thief was searching for a priceless necklace Jesse claimed to have retrieved from a capsized sailing ship, but Shannon doesn’t believe it. Not only does she find Jesse dead-of an apparent heart attack-but she also realizes that his home has been ransacked. After her elderly neighbor Jesse Hennessey fails to make his daily appearance at the local diner, Shannon swings by his place to check on him. Valentine’s Day is approaching, and while Shannon is delighted to be friends with not one but two handsome men, not everyone in town is feeling the love. The quirks and flaws of their residents are another story…. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bibliophile Mysteries and A High-End Finish comes the second Fixer-Upper Mystery…Ĭontractor and part-time sleuth Shannon Hammer specializes in improving the quirks and flaws of the Victorian homes in Lighthouse Cove, California.

A High-End Finish by Kate Carlisle