Bonnie J. Cardone

Bonnie J. Cardone is the author of the Cinnamon Greene Adventure Mysteries. The three books in the series, The Bride Wore Black, Murder Dives the Bahamas and Murder Dives the Caribbean, are available in the Kindle Store and as paperbacks on Amazon.com. Short stories that feature Bonnie's series characters were published in the mystery anthologies, Last Exit to Murder and Gone Coastal. Certified as a scuba diver in the 1970s, Bonnie wrote more than 900 articles and published thousands of photos during her 22 years with Skin Diver Magazine. She also authored two books, Shipwrecks of Southern California and Fireside Diver, and was the principal photographer for Diving and Snorkeling in Southern California & the Channel Islands. Currently she's a freelance photojournalist who writes a monthly column on marine life for California Diving News. In 1999, Bonnie received both the Women's Scuba Association's Women Diver of the Year Award and St. Brendan Corp.'s California Scuba Service Award. She was one of the original inductees of the Women Divers Hall of Fame and is a member of the California Wreck Divers Hall of Fame. In 2009, she was awarded a NOGI for the Arts by the Underwater Academy of Arts and Sciences.