Bonnie grew up in Kirkland Lake, a mining town in Northern Ontario, Canada, and, to amuse herself, wrote her first novel at age ten about a flight nurse in World War II. Two of her favorite music teachers served as secret agents against Nazi Germany, and their experiences heightened her fascination with intrigue and espionage. She read all of Helen MacInnes' novels before Robert Ludlum became popular and is now a staunch fan of Gayle Lynds, Daniel Silva, Greg Iles, David Meadows, Bob Gandt, Douglas de Bono, and others.

Through a career that has ranged from teacher to editorial director of 30 business magazines for a major newspaper publisher in Toronto, she has published over 200 articles and won five Canadian business press awards.

On a special magazine assignment in 1994, she covered the delivery system of humanitarian relief to the war victims in Rwanda. The resulting mass of disease-ridden refugees were swarming the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) when she arrived, just after the massacre of 10 UN soldiers and from 800,000 to one million Rwandans. As a result of that experience, the plight of children in war is a recurring theme in her fiction writing today.

In 2003, she appeared on Canada’s Mystery Channel with a panel of best-known Canadian mystery writers to discuss their novels, how they came up with the ideas and how they developed their plots.

Bonnie lives with her husband, Wally, on the shores of Lake Ontario in a patch of paradise called Wilmot Creek.