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| Name | Lynn Hesse |
| Bio | 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, The Forty Knots Burn, and The Underground Chameleon; An Android Against Authoritarianism. Her last three novels won the Georgia Independent Authors Association Awards for Best Police Procedural, Best Cover Adult Fiction, Best Suspense/Thriller, and the Spotlight on Georgia Fiction, 2023, and Best Sci-fi Novel, 2024. The Underground Chameleon: An Android Authoritarianism was nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year Award and received an Honorable Mention in the 2025 International Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her recent novel is a historical fantasy, “Part of the Stars, Tale of a Boston Mountains Midwife,” published by Blue Room Books, 2025. Lynn Hesse was the 2015 first-place winner, Oak Tree Press, Cop Tales, for her mystery, Well of Rage. Her novel Another Kind of Hero was a finalist for the 2018 Silver Falchion Award and won the International Readers’ Favorite Chill Award in 2021. Her short story “Jewel’s Hell” was published in September 2019 in Me Too Short Stories: An Anthology by Level Best Books and edited by Elizabeth Zelvin. Her short story “Bitter Love” was accepted for publication in Crimeucopia’s October 2021 issue by Murderous Ink Press, United Kingdom. “Shrewd Women” was published by Onyx Publications and Podcast in July 2022. Her short story, “Murder; Food for Thought,” about a domestic homicide, was published in the anthology “Double Lives, Reinvention and Those We Leave Behind” (2009) by Wising Up Press. It was adapted into the play “We Hunt Our Young,” produced at Emory University’s Field Showcase and Core Studio lunchtime series in 2011. Excerpts from the play “Unacceptable Truths,” about domestic abuse, were performed on the Atlanta BeltLine in 2013. Lynn has won writing awards from the Southeastern Writers Association, the International Readers’ Favorite, and was a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion finalist in the cozy category for Another Kind of Hero. Her works have been included in several anthologies. Lynn is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Atlanta Writers Club, Georgia Writers, Sisters-in-Crime, Authors Guild Association, Short Mysteries Society, the National League of American Pen Women, Atlanta Chapter, and a charter member of the Atlanta Chapter of the International Women Police Association. She has been widely interviewed, served on many panels, and is a guest blogger. Lynn is a playwright, an actor, and a dancer in various troupes. She performs in several dance and theatrical troops in Atlanta, Georgia. The dandelion is one of her performance personas. An interview and dance performance concerning Lynn’s role as a police officer, “Blue Steel,” is in the Georgia State University Archives, Women’s Studies. Lynn Holmes was certified as an officer by the state of Georgia for the Georgia State University Police Department and the DeKalb County Police Department. She was one of the first female officers to work patrol in uniform for DeKalb County, Georgia. Winning the DKPD Academic Award in 1980, she graduated in 1996 from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laudate. She went on to win the Larry Quinn Award for academic merit and honorable service in 1997. She was also a detective in the Traffic Special Unit, handling death notifications, specializing in accident scene investigation, and prosecuting offenders in criminal cases. She was part of a seven-woman coalition that sued and convinced DeKalb County, Georgia, to allow women to make rank based on merit. She was part of a team advocating for peer counseling and the Employee Assistance Program. As a sergeant, she developed a squad to respond to domestic violence 911 calls in the county’s highest-crime area. As a lieutenant, she supervised approximately thirty patrol officers and a Mobile Crisis Unit, which consisted of a nurse and an officer who responded to calls involving individuals with mental health issues. |
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