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Lois Lewandowski

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Lois Lewandowski is a fiction writer and essayist. She has published two mystery novels, The Fatal Heir and The Burden of Truth. Both books won an honorable mention in the Eric Hoffer Award for Short Prose and Independent Books. The Burden of Truth was also a finalist in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards mystery category. Her short story, “The River Man,” was a finalist in the 2005 Pebble Lake Review competition for short stories. She has also been published in Plains Song Review.

Lois grew up on a farm in northeast Nebraska and studied Journalism and Psychology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The Midwest is the backdrop for her novels and short stories as she weaves contemporary issues into her work. She is a member of Si...more


At some point in my mystery-writing career, I read that mystery novels should have a theme that ties each book in the series together. As I looked around the mystery genre, I saw there were mysteries about tea shops and coffee shops, quilts and zodiacs, spices and recipes, national parks and holidays, numbers and letters and, well, just about everything. In my research, I found that a professio... read more »
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Published on May 29, 2011 17:19 • 48 views • Tags: mystery-series, themes
Average rating: 4.33 · 6 ratings · 5 reviews · 2 distinct works
The Burden Of Truth: A Gill...
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Arcadia is the story of Ridley Sorrel Stone, known as "Bit" for weighing one pound at birth and therefore being "a little bit of a hippie." Bit's parents, Abe and Hannah, live in the bread truck in the shadow of Arcadia House, a run down mansion in N...more
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was a bit different from her other murder mysteries in that there was no murder. I debated whether it was a three or four star review since some of her plot threads were tucked in a bit too conveniently at the end,...more
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