Bente Gallagher

Real estate professional and home renovator Bente Gallagher writes the bestselling Do It Yourself Home Renovation mysteries (as Jennie Bentley) for Berkley Prime Crime , and the Cutthroat Business mysteries (as Jenna Bennett) for her own gratification.

She lives in Nashville with a husband and two boys, a hyperactive dog, a killer parakeet, two African Dwarf frogs and two goldfish. The cats exist only in her imagination. A native of Norway, she's spent more than twenty years on US soil, and still hasn't been able to kick her native accent.