Standing in line at her hometown bank in Texas, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd witnesses her first real bank robbery. She's in Texas to recruit female and minority agents. The bad girl robbing her bank is sharp as a pistol. And packing one, too."Latin Groove" takes Dawna back to FBI basics, pursuing a bank robber. The female FBI agent and woman criminal are each on their own turf.Can good old girl Dawna win a battle with bad young Bandita when they...

Laugh with Odin, the robot vacuum cleaner who tells you how the Danish government supplies senior citizens with nonhuman assistance so they can live independently. Odin is a tireless worker and his elderly client relies on him totally. She treats him like a dear friend. Spurning her Havanese helper dog, she lets Odin do as he pleases.

Three full-length thrillers in one ebook-get them all for a savings of more than fifty percent! Nora Dockson is an ex-con who pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals attorney. Nora works only for convicted felons, rescuing innocents trapped by the flawed process that put them behind bars. Join Nora for three legal battles that take place in the span of a single landmark year of her life.

Her BS detector clicking madly, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd discovers a rat on the Danish ferry sailing from Norway to England. Not a stinky rodent, but a completely odorless Homeland Security Agent with a hidden agenda. Unlike the eighteen East European cops attending the shipboard conference, the agent organizing it has no scent, no humor, and no bling. Not a partner Dawna automatically trusts. The agent deserves her suspicion. Though the conference...

For an ex-con, no prison visit is routine. When the gate in the perimeter fence slams shut behind Nora Dockson, her gut churns.She hates the concertina wire topping the chainlinks. The black-uniformed guard eyeing her suspiciously. The petty rules dictating when and where she can stand. Sit. Breathe.But Nora pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals lawyer. Her clients are behind bars and that's where she meets them.All are convicted...

Rookie Washington State Trooper Andrea Clark, a supporting player in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series, takes charge in this short mystery story.Underage college students and other kids in car-dependent Spokane County are using fake IDs to buy legal pot and booze.To halt the rise in traffic deaths caused by inexperienced drivers under the influence of cannabis and alcohol, Andrea puts together a sting operation at Spokane's Mineshaft Saloon...

Junior diplomat Casey Collins confronts savagery and danger in war-torn El Salvador. How will she handle the fear?Her nature gives her only two choices.Go numb and avoid trouble.Or live life with every nerve end tingling …Buy "Shut Your Eyes and You'll Be Fine" to ride along with Casey as she makes up her mind.A long-delayed glimpse into how Casey's 1982 assignment to Central America shapes her character. And a pivotal introduction to the short...

Fleeing the cops, a wily Ponzi-schemer disguised in a black hat and chin whiskers is hiding among the Plain Folk wintering in a Sarasota suburb nicknamed "the Amish Las Vegas." Trying to smoke out the fugitive, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd tangles again with persistent and hunky bounty hunter Tommy O'Brien. She finds herself suiting up with the Florida Suncoast State University women's basketball coach and players to get her man. But which man?...

An ex-con, Nora Dockson pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals lawyer. She works only for convicted felons. She's sure her current client didn't murder his wife. The jury was misled by testimony from an expert witness who reconstructed the crime based on bloodstain patterns. She'll prove the so-called expert made leaps of logic incompatible with the latest forensic science.But a family emergency pulls her away from the case and back...

A sharp and deadly femme fatale with a talent for poker, a weakness for men, and a bum kidney.Livvie's gambling her way to a life-saving transplant.Using her sweetheart Neal's body parts as the stakes.Neal antes up. He loves Livvie.But how much does Livvie love him? "… had me clutching at my organs. Macabre and twisted to hell – loved it." (AB Patterson blog review Feb. 6, 2018)Buy "Organ Trade Off: A Noir Short Story" today and take a dangerous...