Diana Deverell
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Casey Collins, a U.S. Foreign Service officer, is agonized when she learns that a bomb on a New York-bound flight from England has exploded after take-off--a flight on which she strongly suspects her lover, Stefan, was a passenger. Desperate to learn the truth, she flies to Europe to find out if Stefan, a Polish operative for Danish Defense Intelligence, has indeed been killed. Her investigation embroils her in unforeseen complications which paint...
2) Hear My Plea
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An ex-con, Nora Dockson has a soft spot for underdogs. So how did police officer Wesley Mitchell jump to the top of her potential client list?
Mitchell's no underdog. Man's so well-connected, for years he evaded punishment for killing unarmed civilians. Only after the FBI and the Justice Department stepped in did a jury find him guilty of two hot-blooded murders. Mitchell's no innocent. He deserves his 65-year prison sentence.
But did the feds fight...
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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...
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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?...
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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...
6) China Box
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Fifteen years ago, Casey Collins's Polish lover was murdered and she lost heart for the war against terror.
After 9/11, the State Department intelligence analyst knew she'd also lost her touch.
Now, she works in tiny US embassies far from Washington, doing routine admin work that numbs her.
The highlight of her day is happy hour. Nothing gets between her and her five o'clock gin and tonic.
Except the ancient spymaster limping into the American...
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An ex-con, Nora Dockson pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals lawyer. She focuses on rescuing women unfairly convicted of killing their loved ones.Yet she won't work for the woman who poisoned her husband and partied hard on the insurance proceeds. Privileged and reckless, Hunter Logan can afford any lawyer she wants. She doesn't need Nora.But when Nora learns more, she has to take Hunter's case. Her whole life, Nora's been getting...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's teaching at Quantico East, the Bureau's overseas training academy. Tomorrow, she'll stage a mock bank robbery for the Central European cops who are her students. Tonight, though, she's enjoying dinner with the pair of federal agents from other agencies who are on her team. Budapest's Café Cristal was highly recommended by a local. The café is also popular with Hungarian gangs, she realizes, when she spots two rival...
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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.
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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.
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Retired intelligence analyst Casey Collins takes a pre-season package tour to the Greek island of Crete. Her bargain vacation should be a perfect way to escape February's chilly darkness, soak up Mediterranean sunshine, and study Minoan history and culture.
But she runs into two problems. First, she finds that none of the other tour group members will converse in her native language. And they don't understand her broken version of theirs.
Luckily,...
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Dawna Shepherd loves her family, working as an FBI Special Agent, and playing basketball.
She's celebrating Christmas in her home town when a bounty hunter pursues her college student brother home from Lubbock. Certain that Fugitive Team Leader Tommy O'Brien is chasing the wrong quarry, Dawna stops him cold at the Shepherd front door. But she knows O'Brien won't give up. And all her crime-fighter instincts are screaming that the bounty hunter is...
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Three days before Christmas, 2000, and FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's in Warsaw, bodyguarding a key female witness in the trial of ruthless but runty crime boss Mike the Midget.
The Polish gangster wants his ex-girlfriend Basia dead before she can testify and ruin his holiday. Dawna has to stay one step ahead of the local mafioski.
Dawna puts the six-foot-five inch two-hundred-and-thirty-pound woman in Kevlar and size seventeen hightops and fakes...
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March Madness is a month away. FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd is off-duty from her temp assignment in Seattle. And on board Amtrak's Coast Starlight, headed for Eugene. Tonight, she'll cheer for the Lady Ducks' basketball team, ranked number three in the nation.
Fate trumps that plan when her train stops in Portland.
The number one criminal on the FBI's most-wanted list boards her double-decker coach and claims the aisle seat three rows in front...
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Seven years ago, a private company headhunted Bella away from her career job keeping State Department employees safe. She got the company's runaway cowboy culture under control.
But in Washington today, diplomacy is out and mercenary armies are in. Bella's methods aren't profitable.
The greedheads in charge agree she has to go. They figure getting rid of the old bitch will be easy. Piss-poor at threat assessment is how Bella assesses them. She'll...
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Working undercover, the newest police department recruit in this southern California town is the only cop available to stop a mad bomber hellbent on wrecking a theme park's grand opening.
All other law enforcement officers in town-and the California Highway Patrol-are outside trying to unsnarl the traffic jamming every road into this spanking new concept in family entertainment.
The bomber is hiding somewhere inside the 150-acre park. Youthful...
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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...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's training across Siberia with the USA women's junior basketball team. She'll join them on the bench at their next crucial game in the capital of Mongolia. Undercover and unofficial, Dawna acts like a die-hard hoops fan on summer vacation while she tries to solve a big problem for her friend, the team coach.Someone is sending anonymous email threats to Alyssa, the team's powerhouse forward, and Alyssa's not playing...
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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...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd goes undercover to get close to a crook who's been defrauding auto insurance companies for two decades. A confidential informant ratted out aging Clayton D. Cooper. Nailed him as ringleader of a major northern Virginia gang.Yet sophisticated FBI data mining programs detect no sign of Cooper's criminal activities.To learn how Cooper evades the software, Dawna has to convince Cooper she's as dirty as he is.If she succeeds,...