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Lynn Hesse

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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
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Well of Rage: Murder in Mobile

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Published by National League of American Pen Women, Atlanta Chapter, Pen Graphs, May 2022 One moment I’m in the Chattahoochee River dancing with dogs and the next day I’m in a cave with my character, Myra, pregnant and alone. The collaboration with other dancers in the river for National Water Dance Day was profound forContinue reading "Highs and Lows of Creativity" Read more of this blog post »
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