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Lynn Hesse is an award-winning author of the novels Well of Rage, Murder in Mobile, Another Kind of Hero, A Matter of Respect, Murder in Mobile, Book 2, and The Forty Knots Burn. Her last two novels won the 2023 Georgia Independent Authors Association Awards for Best Police Procedural, Best Cover Adult Fiction, Best Suspense/Thriller, and the Spotlight on Georgia Fiction. The Underground Chameleon, An Android Against Authoritarianism, her latest sci-fi novel, went live in 2024. Her new historical fantasy is Part of the Stars, Tale of a Boston Mountains Midwife, 2025.

The DeKalb Voices Review published the literary piece “Unceasing” in 2024. Malice, Matrimony, & Murder, A Collection of 25 Wedding Cozy Mystery & Crime Fiction Stories contains Lynn Hesse is an award-winning author of the novels Well of Rage, Murder in Mobile, Another Kind of Hero, A Matter of Respect, Murder in Mobile, Book 2, and The Forty Knots Burn. Her last two novels won the 2023 Georgia Independent Authors Association Awards for Best Police Procedural, Best Cover Adult Fiction, Best Suspense/Thriller, and the Spotlight on Georgia Fiction. The Underground Chameleon, An Android Against Authoritarianism, her latest sci-fi novel, went live in 2024. Her new historical fantasy is Part of the Stars, Tale of a Boston Mountains Midwife, 2025.

The DeKalb Voices Review published the literary piece “Unceasing” in 2024. Malice, Matrimony, & Murder, A Collection of 25 Wedding Cozy Mystery & Crime Fiction Stories contains “Sabotage and A Murder Mystery” by Lynn, published November 2023 by Marla Bradeen. “Shrewd Women” was reprinted in Crimeucopia, Boomshalalaking, Modern Crimes in Modern Times, UK in June 2023 and published by Onyx Publications and Discovery Podcast in 2022. Bitter Love” appeared in Crimeucopia, The I’s Have It by Murderous Ink Press, 2021, UK. “Jewel’s Hell” was in the Me Too Short Stories: An Anthology edited by Elizabeth Zelvin, published in 2019 by Level Best Books.
An interview and video featuring Lynn’s role as a police officer, “Blue Steel,” are housed in the Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives. She performs in several dance and theatrical troupes in Atlanta, Georgia. The dandelion is one of her performance personas.
Lynn left law enforcement to write and lives with her husband and his six rescue cats near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

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	Well of Rage: Murder in Mobile 4.59 avg rating — 37 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Forty Knots Burn 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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