Killer Deals 1-3: A Cutthroat Business, Hot Property, Contract Pending

Jenna Bennett

Feb 2015 · Magpie Ink

About this ebook

Books 19-21 in the USA Today bestselling Savannah Martin mystery series by New York Times bestselling author Jenna Bennett.

Savannah Martin has always been a good girl, doing what was expected and fully expecting life to fall into place in its turn. But when her perfect husband turns out to be a lying, cheating slimeball, Savannah kicks him to the curb and embarks on life on her own terms. With a new apartment, a new career, and a brand new outlook on life, she’s all set to take the world by storm. 

If only the world would stop throwing her curveballs... 

 

A CUTTHROAT BUSINESS - #1 

Everyone has warned new-minted realtor Savannah Martin that real estate is a cutthroat business. But Savannah doesn’t think she’s supposed to take the warning literally ... until an early morning phone call sends her to an empty house on the ‘bad’ side of town, where she finds herself standing over the butchered body of a competitor, face to face with the boy her mother always warned her about.

Rafe Collier is six feet three inches of testosterone and trouble; tall, dark, and dangerous, with a murky past and no future—not the kind of guy a perfect Southern Belle should want to tangle with. In any way. But wherever Savannah turns, there he is, and making no bones about what he wants from her.

Now Savannah must figure out who killed real estate queen Brenda Puckett, make a success of her new career, and avoid getting killed—or kissed—by Rafe, all before the money in her savings account runs out and she has to go back to selling make-up at the mall.

HOT PROPERTY - #2

When Savannah Martin’s fellow Realtor and friend Lila Vaughn is robbed during an open house, Savannah rushes to the rescue with tea and sympathy, or at least a really good lunch and a shoulder to cry on. However, Lila seems more peeved than distraught, and her main gripe is that the sexy robber who tied her to a kitchen chair—for her own good—didn’t follow her suggestion to tie her to the bed instead.

Lila’s description of the man fits Savannah’s old school-mate Rafael Collier to a T. Rafe has recently turned up in Savannah’s life again, and he isn’t above doing a little breaking and entering. Metro Nashville Homicide Detective Tamara Grimaldi is of the same opinion, and when Lila turns up dead, tied to her bed and strangled, Rafe becomes a suspect.

Now Savannah must get busy finding the real murderer before Detective Grimaldi can arrest the wrong man.

CONTRACT PENDING - #3

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, and Realtor Savannah Martin is certainly learning the truth of that statement. It’s been a month and a half since Rafael Collier left town, after the robbery ring he was part of got broken up by the police, and although Savannah knows it would be hideously inappropriate—not to mention supremely stupid—to miss him, she wishes he’d come back soon. His grandmother’s ailing, the nurse he hired to take care of her has disappeared, and somebody is watching the house and following Savannah as she goes about the business of bringing her first real estate transaction to a close.

But when Rafe comes back, things only go from bad to worse. Resident nurse Marquita Johnson is found murdered, and Metro Nashville Homicide Detective Tamara Grimaldi is asked to handle the case. It doesn’t take long for her to focus her interest, once again, on Rafe. As Savannah finally learns the truth about him, she finds herself in the path of a killer more ruthless than any she has encountered yet, a killer who won’t be swayed from his purpose and who isn’t too particular whom he has to go through to get to Rafe.

Now Savannah has to make the choice between staying safe by accepting Todd Satterfield’s proposal, or taking a chance on losing her heart and her life by trying to help Rafe, as the term ‘contract pending’ takes on a whole new meaning.

Books in the Savannah Martin mystery series:  

A Cutthroat Business

Hot Property

Contract Pending

Close to Home

A Done Deal

Contingent on Approval (novella)

Change of Heart

Kickout Clause

Past Due

Dirty Deeds

Unfinished Business

Busman’s Honeymoon (novella)

Adverse Possession

Uncertain Terms

Scared Money

Bad Debt

Home Stretch

Home Run (novella)

Wrongful Termination

Conflict of Interest

Right of Redemption

Collateral Damage

Survival Clause 

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Fans of the following have been known to enjoy this romantic mystery series:

Jennie Bentley

Janet Evanovich

Jana DeLeon

J.D. Robb

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Elizabeth Peters

Jennifer Crusie

Agatha Christie

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mary Kay Andrews

Delia Owens

Alexander McCall Smith

Cleo Coyle

Louise Penny

James Patterson

Richard Castle

Denise Grover Swank

Nancy Martin

Donna Andrews

Jenn McKinlay

Gemma Halliday

Gina LaManna

Leslie Langtry

Camilla Chafer

Julie Mulhern

Julie Moffatt

Rhonda Pollero

Julia Spencer-Fleming

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoyed these stories but found out afterwards that there's like 12+ books to this series...still recommend it

Was a fun set of books to read. There was enough romance and mystery yet it wasn't smutty.

Loved all three stories. Funny but lovingly with the touch of who done it included.

About the author

 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jenna Bennett (Jennie Bentley) writes the Do It Yourself home renovation mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime and the Savannah Martin real estate mysteries for her own gratification. She also writes a variety of romance for a change of pace. 

For more information, please visit her website, www.jennabennett.com