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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Fixed to Death

Fixed to Death

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798187713523
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Consuelo Connie Sadler spent thirty years at Boeing asking machines why they died. Failure analysis, they called it. Take the broken thing apart, measure the wear, find the fault the owner will never admit to. She didn't expect the habit to outlast the paycheck. She certainly didn't expect it to turn up a murder.

Two years widowed, Connie has traded the city for Gault Mills, her late husband's fading mill town in the Pacific Northwest foothills, and hung a shingle over what used to be the family hardware store: Open Ticket Repair, where the whole town carries in whatever has stopped working and mostly carries it home again. She keeps a notebook for every job, a three-legged cat named Bus in the front window, a retired postmistress who sorts mail that isn't hers and reads all the return addresses, and a quiet man at the next bench she's started to notice she notices.

For the first time in a long while, life keeps ordinary hours. Then Sylvia Odegard, the imperious last daughter of the family that built the town, brings in a 1911 cash register that has stopped keeping count honestly, with one strange condition: it must sit in the shop window where the whole town can watch Connie make it right. Days later, Sylvia is dead at the bottom of her cellar stairs, and Gault Mills settles on the easy word for it. Accident.

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