Okay, I have to admit that I thought someone sent this book to me by mistake when I opened the package and read “Talking to the Dead.” I’m a Christian book reviewer for heaven’s sake, so naturally the first thing that came to my mind was conjuring up spirits from the underworld. After I had done a little research I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was in deed a Christian book after all.

Bonnie Grove is a Canadian and I enjoyed interviewing with her. This is her first novel but she is no amature when it comes to writing. Her first novel kept me up well into the night and it was finished in less the 24 hours.  Gorgeously written, well done Bonnie!

Listen to our interview…

Moody Publishers – The Name You Can Trust, releases Rhapsody in Red ( a Preston Barclay Mystery).

“That Wednesday, two weeks before Thanksgiving, was a bad day to find a corpse on campus.”

Preston Barclay is a self-made recluse (and he likes it that way). Teaching college history allows him time to grieve the loss of his pianist wife and find relief from the musical hallucinations that have been playing in his head since her death. But when he and a headstrong colleague, Mara Thorn, discover the body of another instructor on campus, Press’s monotonous solitude is destroyed. when the preliminary evidence singles out Press and Mara, they must take some chances (including trusting each other) to build their own defense — by bending the rules just a little bit.

They choose to form an unlikely alliance to stay ahead of the police, the college’s wary and incompetent administration, and whoever is trying to get away with murder. Otherwise, they both might end up unemployed, behind bars, or worse…

About the Author: Donn Taylor served in Korea and Vietnam and worked with air reconnaissance in Europe and Asia. He taught English and literature and two liberal arts colleges, and he is the author of a suspense novel, and a collection of poems. He and his wife live near Houston.

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