Lynn Hess: A Southern Spin on Crime and Murder
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. Recently, 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.
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. Lynn left law enforcement to write and lives with her husband and his six rescue cats near Atlanta, Georgia, where she performs in several dance troupes.
Tell us a bit about your latest work.
An adult/ young adult sci-fi “Grams and Teddy Private Detective Agency “sprouted from a conversation with my grandson before COVID. I’m looking for a publisher.
In 2045 Atlanta, Georgia, a grandmother, and her grandson run a private detective agency in a world with flying cars, holograms, drone surveillance, mandatory senior medications, and an authoritarian government without a Bill of Rights. Widower Dorothy Saunders or Grams and Teddy, her illegal android grandson, are members of the Underground and work against the State to abolish annual home inspections and establish democratic elections. They appear to their neighbors as a fiction writer and human college student, but Jack Saunders created Teddy before he died. Now, Teddy hugs Grams at least three times a day, and they work together solving P.I. cases for extra cash. Two Underground operatives are assassinated. The case of a missing pharmaceutical rep, Jonathan Farnsworth, leads them to the dangerous conspirators that murdered the operatives, a black-market organ harvesting ring in Hawaii, and robotic gestation of human fetuses.
What are the themes and subjects you tend to revisit in your work?
Subgroups and outsiders, domestic violence, and mental illness are frequent issues I dealt with on-duty as a police officer; they reoccur in my novels and short stories. Thematically, the gray areas of life interest me more than dogma and rules. I revisit the issues of actions, consequences, and the possibility of redemption or forgiveness. What is justice?
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