JENNA BENNETT SERIES:

Last Call

Last Call

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

It's wedding season in Sweetwater, and plenty of Savannah's nearest and dearest have paired up to tie the knot. First up are Todd Satterfield and Marley Cartwright – but things take a turn when the father of the groom, Sheriff Bob Satterfield, doesn't show up in time for the wedding. Todd and Marley exchange vows anyway – the church is full and the minister waiting – but of course there's no question about honeymooning in Tuscany under the circumstances. They stay home and, like everyone else in the family, turn their brains inside out to try to figure out what could have happened. But as the hours and days tick by, Bob's disappearance remains a mystery. The investigation is only made more confusing, and more urgent, by the discovery of another three missing men from a nearby town. The next weekend is the wedding of Savannah's brother Dix to Chief of Police Tamara Grimaldi, and Savannah's determined that that's going to take place as...
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Conflict of Interest

Conflict of Interest

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

Savannah is delighted to be back in her hometown of Sweetwater, surrounded by family and friends, even if it's only temporarily. The house in Nashville is in the process of being repaired after the fire. Baby Caroline is alive and well and getting bigger every day. And Rafe is all recovered, and is working for Tamara Grimaldi and the Columbia PD, at least for the time being. That probably won't last, but for now, Savannah's content. There are flies in the ointment, however. Savannah's best friend from high school is back in town, and seems to be setting her cap for Savannah's brother Dix. Savannah has been rooting for Dix and Tamara Grimaldi to get together, and this new development doesn't make her happy. Sure, she loves Charlotte... but Charlotte already has a husband, and shouldn't need another one. She especially shouldn't need Dix, not when Savannah wants Grimaldi to have him. And then there's the case Rafe is working on. Katie Graves was a teenager when she...
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Before You

Before You

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

It’s all fun and games I had a simple plan for spring break. Sun, sand, and a hot guy. Sex on the beach, with no strings attached. A chance to get rid of this pesky virginity once and for all. And when I met Tyler McKenna, I thought I had it made. Until someone gets hurt But then girls started turning up at Key West landmarks. Girls who looked like me, but with one crucial difference: They’d all been drugged and relieved of their virginity. The virginity I still have. The virginity Ty refuses to take. And now I’ve begun to wonder whether there isn’t more to him than meets the eye. Suddenly, sex on the beach doesn’t sound so good anymore…
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Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

A white supremacy hate group is spreading its tendrils through the bucolic hills of Middle Tennessee, holding target practice in Laurel Hill wildlife area and stockpiling weapons in preparation for a race war. It's up to Savannah's husband Rafe to find and eliminate them... with a little help from Columbia chief of police Tamara Grimaldi, the joint sheriffs of Lawrence, Lewis, Giles, and Maury counties, and an undercover agent from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - an undercover agent Rafe trained, and one he wants to keep alive. But it isn't Clayton in the cross-hairs when the members of the group discover they're under investigation. It's Rafe who goes down from a bullet to the chest, and Savannah who must sideline her worry to lend a hand in taking down the people responsible, before they can put their evil plans into action and affect damage that far supersedes the shooting of one man.
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Right of Redemption

Right of Redemption

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

When Savannah and her best friend Charlotte decide to pick up some quick cash by flipping a foreclosed property in nearby Columbia, they talk Savannah's sister Darcy into putting up the money for the renovations. But no sooner have they ripped up the carpet and torn out the kitchen cabinets, than the previous owner shows up and invokes his statutory right of redemption. After four years in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit, he's back in town to clear his name, and he wants his house back. And according to Savannah's legal-eagle brother Dix, there's nothing they can do to stop him. Until someone does, permanently, with a murder weapon that has Charlotte's fingerprints all over it. Savannah's husband Rafe has his hands full with internal affairs at the local PD, so the murder investigation falls on someone else: a detective who doesn't share Savannah's conviction that Charlotte wouldn't hurt a fly. And when Savannah feels compelled to do some...
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The Boddy in the Snowbank

The Boddy in the Snowbank

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

Just for fun... a short story based around the game Cluedo/Clue. When Mr. Boddy is found dead in a snowbank, his loyal housekeeper, Mrs. White, must give a statement to the police about the case. It's the Clue characters like you've never seen them before!Just for fun... this short story based around the whodunit game Cluedo/Clue was written as a guest post for the blog 7criminalminds in January 2011 The prompt was: “The Clue characters are locked in a winter lodge. Mr. Boddy is found dead in a snowdrift with no visible signs of trauma. Who did it and how do you prove it using just the things in the lodge?”This is Mr. Boddy's faithful retainer, Blanche White's recollection of the events of the fatal night, as told to police detective Bruno Gray. I do not own the game Cluedo/Clue, and I am not in any way affiliated with Hasbro, the publisher of the game. I just borrowed the characters to have some fun.
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Stalking Steven

Stalking Steven

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

Fresh from solving her late husband's murder, Gina Beaufort Kelly is dealing with her first case as a licensed PI: stalking Steven Morton, the husband of Gina's divorce attorney, Diana Morton. University professor Steven is spending significant time with a beautiful, blond Russian young enough to be his daughter, which sets all of Gina's antennae quivering. But what's supposed to be a simple case of philandering soon turns sinister when the nosy neighbor of the young Russian girl is murdered, and Steven and the girl have vanished off the face of the earth. Add in a ransom note for Steven's return, a bloody attack on Gina's associate Zachary, and the newest addition to the firm - a Boston Terrier that used to belong to the murder victim, but that has now attached itself to Gina - and the newly licensed PI has her hands full.
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Haunting Harold

Haunting Harold

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

At the request of an old friend, Fidelity Investigations private eye Gina Beaufort Kelly takes on the task of surveilling Harold Newsome, one of her late husband's clients. Harold's third wife Heidi thinks something's going on, and she wants Gina to discover what. As she follows Harold from the gym to the office to lunch and back, it soon becomes clear that Gina isn't the only one haunting Harold. Another local PI is also on the trail, and then there's the young blonde who often shows up where Harold is - a young blonde dressed in the fashions of a bygone era... or at least the fashions of a dozen years ago. But when another seemingly simple case of philandering turns to murder, Detective Jaime Mendoza gets involved. And as it turns out, this might not be the first time suspicious death has struck the Newsomes...
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Adverse Possession

Adverse Possession

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

Savannah Martin's real estate career has been an uphill battle. As far as Savannah is concerned, her personal zenith was getting Aislynn Turner and Kylie Mitchell into their dream home, a Victorian cottage in the hip and happening historic district of East Nashville, last January.That was six months ago, and now the dream has turned sour. Someone is sending Aislynn and Kylie threatening letters, warning them to get out while they can. Aislynn is terrified and Kylie is ready to cut her losses.But finding a poison pen is only the beginning. When Kylie is attacked and the previous owner of the house is killed, the hunt is on for a murderer, and Savannah is determined to get to the bottom of what's going on before Aislynn and Kylie have to give up their dream home, and maybe each other, in the process.
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