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, “Forty Knots Burn,” was published by Blue Room Books in January 2022.
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“A Matter of Respect”
Officer Carly Redmond witnesses an armed robbery and makes an off-duty arrest of a mentally ill man that leads to the death of a fellow officer by the suspect Joshua Randall. During interrogation by her department and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, Carly learns the video at the jail intake of Joshua murdering the officer with a switchblade is missing, and the radio printout is altered. She is sure she patted down the suspect and bagged the knife, but ‘the powers that be’ accuse her of negligence. Discovering how Joshua got the knife leads to uncovering bad cops, a CEO willing to demolish Africatown, a section of Mobile Alabama built by slaves in the eighteen hundreds.