Leaving Innocence: A Gran and Bass Olson Mystery - Paperback

Lynd, Donna: - 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.