

I’m a California girl, born and bred, so it’s what I know best. Why did you pick a northern Californian seaside town as the backdrop for your book? The blind date idea came to me pretty easily when I started brainstorming the book. I also needed the first murder victim to be connected to her in such a way that she would be a logical suspect. One of the things I love best about writing my first and best known mystery series, the Bibliophile Mysteries, is the slow-build romance, so I knew that I wanted Shannon to be single when the series started. What inspired you to write about a woman whose recent date is found dead?

Shannon and her close-knit group of friends will have to work together to clear her name and nail the killer. So when her blind date turns up dead the next morning-on one of her job sites-she’s the new police chief’s prime suspect. Shannon specializes in Victorian home renovation, with an unfortunate propensity for finding literal skeletons in her neighbors’ closets.Īs A HIGH-END FINISH begins, Shannon has an epically bad blind date, witnessed by half the town. In Lighthouse Cove, everyone knows the best man for a job is a woman. Hallmark has brought my books to the screen in a series of movies starring Jewel and Colin Ferguson. Please give us a short introduction to what A High-End Finish is about.Ī HIGH-END FINISH is the first book of my Fixer-Upper Mysteries series, which your readers may recognize from Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. The first movie premiered in January 2017, the second less than three months later, with plans to film several more. Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel is bringing the Fixer-Upper Mysteries to TV in a series of movies starring Jewel and Colin Ferguson. The series is set in Lighthouse Cove, a seemingly idyllic town with many dark secrets hiding under its floorboards. With the publication of A High-End Finish in November 2014, Kate launched the Fixer-Upper Mysteries featuring building contractor Shannon Hammer, who specializes in Victorian home renovation and repair. New York Times bestselling author Kate Carlisle is a native Californian who worked in television production for many years before turning to writing.
