Final Closing

by Barbara Lee

Published 1 September 1997
Someone is killing real estate agents in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, but then, selling houses has always been a dangerous business. When female real estate agents begin to receive threatening, sexually explicit phone calls, Eve Elliot tries to suppress her anxieties. But after agent Rose Macklin is found bludgeoned to death on the grounds of a secluded Chesapeake Bay estate, Eve can no longer afford to take her own safety for granted. Wanting to calm his panicked employees, broker Mitch Gaylin hires an ex-policewoman to teach the agents how to protect themselves, and Eve quickly realizes that the very skills she can now use to defend a life might also be used to take one.