Lynn Hesse

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Lynn Hesse is an award-winning author of the crime, suspense, mystery, sci-fi, and the historical fiction/magical realism, Part of the Stars, Tale of a Boston Mountains Midwife, 2025, Blue Room Books. The Underground Chameleon, An Android Against Authoritarianism was adapted into a screenplay after the novel won Best Science Fiction in the Georgia Independent Author Awards, 2025, and Honorable Mention in The Eric Hoffer Book Award, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, 2025. She is a retired police officer and a performer in several Atlanta dance and theatre troupes, and lives with her husband in Stone Mountain, Georgia. https://www.lynnhesse.com

Malice, Matrimony, & Murder, A Collection of 25 Wedding Cozy Mystery & Crime Fiction Stories contains “Sabotage and A Murder Mystery” by Lynn, published November of 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 concerning Lynn’s role as a police officer, “Blue Steel,” is in 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.

She is a retired police officer and a performer in several Atlanta dance and theatre troupes, and lives with her husband and many feral cats in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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