Leaving Innocence: A Gran and Bass Olson Mystery

Written by Donna Lynd

Narrated by Ryan Haugen

What is the price of justice? Everything. Bass Olson, a genius, out-of-work software designer, returns to Innocence, Arkansas, to be by his grandfather's deathbed. No one has been able to understand Old Zeke's final words, but Bass creates a program that can decipher them. Old Zeke wants his son's murderer caught and brought to justice. The fact that Daniel's death seventeen years prior was deemed accidental at the time is just the first of many complications. Gran Olson is a feisty retired MASH nurse whose ingenuity and devotion are well-known in Innocence. The night her husband dies, everything changes. Once she learns the truth of her son's murder, she dives into the case completely. With the help of Old Zeke's million-dollar insurance settlement offered as a reward, Gran and Bass begin gathering old clues. They soon find themselves confronting gangs, the KKK, family members who want more than a small piece of the money, and all sorts of characters comfortable with casual killing. In this world far from Innocence, Gran Olson will have to use all of her common sense and her faith to find the murderer and get herself and Bass out alive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Donna Lynd
• Release date: Mar 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9798892281201

Donna Lynd

Truth be told, Donna is not a novelist. She is a script writer, screen writer, and playwright. This mystery is her first mystery novel, based on her concept script written for a television series. Her mentor encouraged her to write this as a novel to sell the screenplay. Initially, all dialog and action, the first draft was an "airplane book" easily read in a few hours. Then it became an audio book as her readers formed a group to hear pages read aloud every week.Donna was raised in tornado alley, and as a child, she converted the "storm cellar" of her parents' home into a theater for her original plays. Living in the country, she invited her brownie troop to stay the night to perform her plays and soon her skits were the highlight of the Girl Scout campfire nights. Throughout high school and college, her skits were used in rush parties and homecoming festivals. As a professor in academia, Donna has written hundreds of "skits" that give life to information systems and business case studies so that her students, coming from around the world, could easily grasp the underlying concepts. She wrote 128 skits for the disadvantaged adult students who performed her role-playing skits to increase their confidence and truly understand the difficult concepts of the case studies. Her plays have been used as church fundraisers and holiday shows featuring local talent.