Lynn Hesse
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Lynn Hesse

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Lynn Hesse won the 2015 First Place Winner, Oak Tree Press, Cop Tales, for her mystery, WELL OF RAGE. Her mystery, ANOTHER Kind of Hero, was a finalist for the 2018 Silver Falchion Award and won the International Readers’ Chill Award in 2021. Lynn’s suspense novel, “THE FORTY KNOTS BURN,” was published by Blue Room Books in January 2022. A MATTER OF RESPECT, the sequel to the crime novel WELL OF RAGE, was published by Scribblers Press in November 2022. Her short story, “Shrewd Women,” was published by Onyx Publications in July 2022. Another short story, “Bitter Love,” was accepted for publication in CRIMEUCOPIA, THE I's HAVE IT” in the October 2021 issue of Murderous Ink Press, United Kingdom. “Jewel’s Hell” was published in ME TOO SHORT STORIES: AN ANTHOLOGY by Level Best Books, 2019, and edited by Elizabeth Zelvin. Her short story about a domestic homicide, “Murder: Food For Thought,” published in the anthology DOUBLE LIVES, REINVENTION, & THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND, 2009 by Wising Up Press, was adapted in the play WE HUNT OUR YOUNG, produced at Emory University Field Showcase and Core Studio Luncheon Time Series, 2011. Excerpts from the play UNACCEPTABLE TRUTHS were performed on the Atlanta BeltLine in 2013. An interview concerning Lynn’s role as a police officer, BLUE STEEL, is in The Women’s Studies Archives, The Second Feminist Movement, Georgia State University. She performs in several dance and theatrical troupes in Atlanta, Georgia. The dandelion is one of her performance personas. Lynn Holmes Hesse was Police Officer Standard Training (POST) certified as an officer at Georgia State University. She was one of DeKalb County, Georgia's first female officers in uniform. Winning the DKPD Academic Award in 1980, she won the Larry Quinn Award for academic merit and honorable service in 1997. She was also a detective in the Traffic Specialist Unit, handling death notifications, specialized accident scene investigation documentation, and criminal prosecution of offenders. She was part of a seven-woman coalition that fought DeKalb County (Georgia) to allow women to make rank in the 1980s. She was part of a team who rallied for peer counseling and the Employee Assistance Program. As a sergeant, she developed a squad to answer domestic violence 911 calls in the highest crime area of the county. While a lieutenant, she supervised approximately thirty patrol officers and a Mobile Crisis Unit consisting of a nurse and an officer who answered calls involving the mentally ill. Lynn retired from law enforcement in 2003. She is the Atlanta Writers Club, Sisters-in-Crime, Walton Writers, National League of American Pen Women, International Women Police Association, and Crime Writers Association, UK.
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