Best-selling author Brandilyn Collins has two books vying for ACFW’s 2008 Book of the Year in the suspense category. Her Kanner Lake series books two and three, Coral Moon and Crimson Eve, tell about some of the quirky characters who stop by the fictional coffee shop Java Joint and contribute to the real-life blog Scenes and Beans.
But fiction isn’t all she does.
Collins has also educated many best-selling-novelist-wannabes with her non-fiction book Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors. And I’ve found her blog to be as entertaining as it is informative.
Here’s my review of Crimson Eve, the third book in the Kanner Lake series:
Kanner Lake realtor Carla Radler has a nibble. Possibly a whole bite. She’s positively elated about the chance to sell Edna San’s estate to a tall, dark, and handsome. But Carla keeps her poise in front of this charming man with rich brown eyes. When she learns that this British gentleman with a cocky James Bond attitude will pay cash if he likes the place, she really gets excited. Who wouldn’t?
What Carla soon finds out is that things are not as they seem.
Fast forward to a phone call at Bailey Truitt’s coffee shop, Java Joint. Two of Scenes and Beans blog post authors, Bailey and Carla, discuss Carla’s missed appointment with Wilbur, another Scenes and beans co-author who needs Carla’s help with a blog post. Carla’s in more trouble than Bailey knows. She can’t let Bailey know what’s going on. What if the phone lines are tapped?
Carla’s run for her life takes a desperate turn. No one can know where she is. No one. Or he’ll kill them too.
Brandilyn Collins reveals the secrets of Kanner Lake residents one by one in this series. In Crimson Eve, she again mixes real-life with fiction in her references to a real blog called Scenes and Beans, which is based in a fictional coffee shop called Java Joint.
She has woven another well-paced suspense in Kanner Lake, only this time we leave town.
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