That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles

About the Book

Encouraged by their small-town church pastor, sisters Gladys and Myrtle Gooseberger make cookies to send to the CIA, to show their support. When an agent keels over after eating one, the old ladies are suspected of terrorism, especially since actual terrorists Ramadan (Ram) and Izzidine (Izzie) have been detected in a neighboring town. Being short of operatives, the CIA send two macho agents in female persona to scope out the spinsters’ church. Terrorists Ram and Izzie also get wind of suspicious activity in Wilderwood and hitchhike in that direction disguised as nuns. They are intercepted not by authorities but by a ‘funny farm’ bus. Meanwhile, a desperate mother in the congregation tries to hitch her nerdy son to “Grace,” one of the CIA agents’ personas, the cute church activities director tempts agent Jack posing as “Anna,” to blow his cover, and Gladys and Myrtle stalk the two CIA, whom they suspect of being the “Arabian Furriners.” Never have romance, suspense and intrigue been conducted with such hilarious derring-do. It could only happen in “That’s The Way the Cookie Crumbles.”

About the Author

Virginia Hill Bendure spent about half her childhood in the Far East as a missionary kid and the other half in the United States as a preacher’s kid. She graduated from Ozark Bible College, Joplin, Missouri, and also attended Missouri Southern College in Joplin, majoring in elementary education. Instead of becoming a teacher, however, she married and reared three daughters. Along the way, she obtained a variety of part-time jobs-as sewing machine operator, cafeteria cook, church janitor, substitute mail carrier, and copy editor for several small town newspapers. Now retired, she and her husband maintain a small herd of beef cattle on their twenty-four acre farm. Her writing endeavors, which include poetry, song lyrics, plays and short stories, have often been interrupted to babysit her six grandchildren or to help load a cow for the stockyards.

THAT’S THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES is her first novel.