Kendel Lynn

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Kendel Lynn is a Southern California native who now parks her flip-flops in Dallas, Texas. She read her first Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators at the age of seven and has loved mysteries ever since. Her debut novel, Board Stiff, was an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel. It features Elliott Lisbon, a mostly amateur sleuth who has a slight aversion to all things germy and is only five thousand hours away from getting her PI license. Along with writing, she spends her days editing, designing, and figuring out ways to avoid the gym but still eat cupcakes for dinner.

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Enter to win 1 of 3 signed ARCs for SWAN DIVE, the 3rd Elliott Lisbon Mystery, in a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway – but it ends soon: Feb 26.

Swan Dive (An Elliott Lisbon Mystery #3) by Kendel Lynn

Elli Lisbon is a mostly amateur sleuth who’s only 5,000 hours away from getting her PI license. In her latest adventure, she gets tangled up with a troupe of suspects when a ballet dancer ends up dead. She discovers an eccentric herbalist, a temperamenta Read more of this blog post »
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Kendel Lynn Jill wrote: "Thanks for your friendship here on Goodreads, Kendel. I see we have something in common - going to the gym and eating cake! I'll check out your book, Other Peoples Baggage."

Hi Jill, thanks to you, too! Here's to best food group: cupcakes!


message 4: by Jill

Jill Thanks for your friendship here on Goodreads, Kendel. I see we have something in common - going to the gym and eating cake! I'll check out your book, Other Peoples Baggage.


Stacey Thank you for the invite! Looking forward to reading Other People's Baggage.


message 2: by Beth

Beth Hi Kendel,
Thanks for sending a Goodreads friend request to this fellow mystery writer!


message 1: by Donna

Donna Thank you for friending me on Goodreads.
I see you enjoy mysteries. I like to read them also, as well as other genres of books.
Happy reading.
Have a great week.
Donna


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