Lynn S. Hightower

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Lynn S. Hightower (* before 1992 in Chattanooga ) is an American writer who is known for her crime novels.

Life

Hightower grew up in Kentucky. She studied creative writing and graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in journalism . She first wrote commercials for television and then went on to study for a Master of Business Administration . But she soon found that this wasn't the thing for her; she wanted to earn a living as a writer. Hightower wrote several successful crime novel series from the 1990s onwards, some of which were also published in German. She also taught creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

In 1994 she received the Shamus Award for Satan's Lambs . In order to add authenticity to her accounts, she visited crime scenes and performed autopsies with police officers from the Cincinnati Homicide Squad and with police officers and private detectives in Kentucky.

Hightower says he loves Zydeco music, films, small sports cars and tame riding horses. She is a full-time writer, dog owner as a hobby, loves dancing and canoeing. The last known places of residence were Lexington, Kentucky (1999) and California (2002).

Works

Sonora Blair series
  • Flashpoint-Killer Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995 ISBN 3-426-61431-6 US original title: Flashpoint
  • The blind spot Droemer Knaur, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-426-60806-5 US original title: Eyeshot
  • Tödlicher Ritt Droemer Knaur, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-426-61155-4 Original US title: No good deed (Delacorte Press, New York 1998) (UK title: Horseplay )
  • Payday Droemer Knaur, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-426-61959-8 Original US title: The debt collector (Delacorte Press, New York 2000)
Lena Padget series
  • Satan's lambs - Walker & Co., New York 1993
  • Fortunes of the dead (2003)
  • When Secrets Die - Atria / Simon & Schuster, 2005
David Silver series
  • Alien blues (1992)
  • Alien eyes (1993)
  • Alien heat (1994)
  • Alien rites (1995)
out of ranks
  • Old Sins (2001)
  • High water (UK title: Borderline )
Anthologies, short stories

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UCLA Extension website entry ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uclaextension.edu
  2. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=12945
  3. ^ Hightower meeting
  4. ↑ http://www.lynnhightower.com/author.html
personal data
SURNAME Hightower, Lynn S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Chattanooga