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Hugh Lessig

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I grew up in a slate quarry town in Pennsylvania, but I've called Virginia home since 1997. I spent 30-plus years as newspaper reporter. I've covered everything from small city council meetings, where it was just me and them, to the earthquake relief effort in Haiti, where I was embedded with the Navy on the USS Bataan.

I began writing crime short stories around 2005, and was fortunate to land a few in places like Thuglit, Shotgun Honey and Plots With Guns. Those online markets were gold for writers just starting out. (Seriously, check out the table of contents for any Thuglit issue. A bunch of those writers are famous today.)

My debut novel, FADEAWAY JOE, came out in August 2023 from Crooked Lane Books. It's about an aging criminal battlin
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Your Man in Nashville

Bouchercon is biggest gathering of mystery writers and readers you're likely to see. It is held in a different city each year, and 2024 has brought us to Nashville.

There is something special about bonding with other writers. Sharing tips, complaints, stories of success, boosting each other to keep going. Writing tends to be a lonely business, and writers themselves tend to be introverts. Which is Read more of this blog post »
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A flood erases a town from the map. A wildfire transforms a neighborhood into an ashen hellscape. In a disaster’s wake, the survivors show up on the evening news and the front page. They are the faces we see, but the people we never know, because hea
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"Former bouncer Joe Pendergast is starting a new chapter in his life as owner/operator of Joe’s Takeaway Food Truck with a major strike against him—he’s in the early stages of dementia. It’s a condition he discovered only after he engaged in a punchin" Read more of this review »
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"Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for accepting my request to read and audibly review Fadeaway Joe.

A thinker with likeable characters. The mafia bullying as the backdrop of the story is light. The author doesn't tell or include gruesome crime" Read more of this review »
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"Blew thru this in less than 24 hours. Great story and easy to read. A wonderful first novel for Lessig."
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Blackwell hits it out of the park with this collection. He tackles tough subjects from the lingering anguish of school shootings to roving homelessness. Hard lessons here. Worth your time.
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Jess Lourey has been a favorite author of mine for some time. This story focuses on a cold case known as "The Taken Ones." Three girls enter the woods near their Minnesota home in 1980. Only one comes out. The survivor has no memory of what happened, ...more
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