Cooking the Books by Bonnie Calhoun

This week, the  Christian Fiction Blog Alliance  is introducing  Cooking The Books  Abingdon Press (April 2012)  by  Bonnie S. Calhoun   


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

As the Owner/Director of the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance Bonnie has helped use the 220+ blogs of the Alliance to promote many titles on the Christian bestseller list. She also owns and publishes the Christian Fiction Online magazine which is devoted to readers and writers of Christian fiction. She is the Northeast Zone Director for American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). At ACFW she was named the ‘Mentor of the Year,’ for 2011, and she is the current President of (CAN) Christian Authors Network. Bonnie is also the Appointment Coordinator for both the Colorado Christian Writers Conference and the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference.

In her spare time she is an avid social media junkie, and teaches Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and HTML as recreational occupations. She also has a novel coming out in the Abingdon Quilts of Love series. Her novel Pieces of the Heart will publish August of 2013.

Bonnie and her husband Bob live in a log cabin on 15 acres in upstate area of Binghamton, New York with a dog and cat who consider the humans as wait-staff.



ABOUT THE BOOK

After her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton goes from Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner before she can blink. She also "inherits" a half-batty store manager; a strange bunch of little old people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week, but never read books, called the Granny Oakleys Book Club; and Aunt Verline, who fancies herself an Iron Chef when in reality you need a cast iron stomach to partake of her culinary disasters. And with a group like this you should never ask, “What else can go wrong?”

A lot! Sloane begins to receive cyber threats. While Sloane uses her computer forensic skills to uncover the source of the threats, it is discovered someone is out to kill her. Can her life get more crazy?


If you would like to read the first chapter of Cooking The Books, go HERE.


Watch the book video:





If you'd like to read interviews with Bonnie, try these:

Everbody Needs A Little Romance

A Christian Writers World

Novel Rocket

ACFW - Fiction Finder


Margie's comments: I've waited a long time to write this review for my very good friend, Bonnie Calhoun. When I got the galley for Cooking the Books, we were in the middle of the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference preparation. But every chance I got, I opened my Kindle a continued reading. What wonderful characters Bonnie has created—ones that remain alive in my mind. Sloane is wonderfully snarky, and I laughed out loud over so many of her lines. I could see Bonnie in her, and Bonnie admits Sloane Templeton is autobiographical. The mystery Sloane finds herself deep in the middle of is well written and very well paced. I've read (and edited) earlier books Bonnie has written, so I can honestly say that with her debut novel, Cooking the Books, Bonnie has found her true writer's voice. For anyone who loves mysteries with a bit of "snark," you'll love Bonnie Calhoun's Cooking the Books.