Dee Henderson is an author of

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novels within the inspirational romantic suspense genre; she has won various awards for her writing and been on the ''

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Personal life

Dee Henderson is a lifelong inhabitant of Illinois, currently residing in

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. She is the daughter of a

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and started writing as a child. Henderson graduated from the

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in 1988 with a B.S. in

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and worked for a decade as an engineer before starting to publish professionally. She started writing fiction for publication in 1996. Henderson is single and enjoys painting, reading, walking around her subdivision, and spending time with her dogs. She still attends church at her childhood church. ''

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'' described Henderson one of the "bestselling and perennial favorites" published by

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, a division of

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Awards

Henderson has won or been nominated for various writing awards including:

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's RITA Award, the

Christy Award The Christy Awards, established in 1999, are awarded each year to recognize fiction of excellence written from a Christian perspective with matters of faith at its core. Awards are given in several genres, including contemporary (stand-alone novel ...

, the

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Gold Medallion, the Holt Medallion, the National Readers' Choice Award,"FL Public Library Adds new romance author," ''Daily Citizen'' (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) 15 Mar 2001, p. 14 and the Golden Quill.

Published works

O’Malley Series

*1. Danger In The Shadows: a Prequel To The O'Malleys (1999) *2. The Negotiator (1999) *3. The Guardian (2001) *4. The Truth Seeker (2001) *5. The Protector (2001) *6. The Healer (2002) *7. The Rescuer (2003) *8. Jennifer: An O'Malley Love Story 2013) *9. The witness(2006)

Uncommon Heroes

*1. True Devotion (2000) *2. True Valor (2002) *3. True Honor (2002) *4. True Courage (2004) (Also known as Kidnapped)

Stand alones

* The Marriage Wish (2007) * God's Gift (1998) * The Witness (2006) * Before I Wake (2006) * Full Disclosure (2012) * Unspoken (2013) * Undetected (2014) * Taken (2015) * Sins of the Past (2016) * Kidnapped (2004)

Evie Blackwell Cold Case

* Traces of Guilt #1 (2016) * Threads of Suspicion #2 (2017)

References

External links

*http://www.deehenderson.com *http://www.deehenderson.com/, https://web.archive.org/web/20150609002824/http://www.likesbooks.com/deehenderson.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20140405212921/http://likesbooks.com/wb30.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20071214160251/http://www.theromancereadersconnection.com/aotm/authorofthemonthhenderson.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Henderson, Dee Grainger College of Engineering alumni American Christian writers 21st-century American novelists American women novelists 21st-century American women writers Living people 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers Writers from Springfield, Illinois Novelists from Illinois American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people)