Diana Deverell

Biography

Diana Deverell has published seven novels, a short fiction collection, and many short stories.

Her latest project is a series of legal thrillers set in Spokane and featuring Nora Dockson, a lawyer who specializes in appeal of life imprisonment and death penalty sentences. The first, Help Me Nora, was released in July, 2014. The second, Right the Wrong, was released in March, 2015. The third book will be published in late 2015.

For the latest update, visit Diana at www.dianadeverell.com

Diana made her debut as a novelist in 1998 with a series of international thrillers featuring State Department counterterrorist analyst Kathryn “Casey” Collins: 12 Drummers Drumming, Night on Fire, and East Past Warsaw. The three novels are also available in a single ebook, The Casey Collins Trilogy. Diana’s short story, "Warm Bodies in a Cold War", originally published in 1996 under a different title, introduced Casey to the readership of the Foreign Service Journal. The prequel No Place for an Honest Woman expanded on Casey’s early career. The story and all four thrillers are now available as individual ebooks.

In 2000, Diana’s short fiction starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd started making regular appearances in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Her mystery collection, Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns includes eleven Dawna Shepherd stories first published by Alfred Hitchcock, plus all-new “Latin Groove”. Both the collection and “In Plain Sight,” her 2013 mystery, are available in e-editions. Dawna’s latest adventure, “Blown,” appeared in the Kobo Special Edition of Pulse Pounders, the Januaury 2015 issue of Fiction River anthology.

In 2012, Diana released her comic mystery novel, Murder, Ken Kesey, and Me as an ebook.

Other digital editions include "Heart Failure", a short story set on the day Jim Morrison died, written to order for a publisher of textbooks for Danish teens learning English.

Diana is a member (and past board member) of the International Association of Crime Writers. She belongs to the American Women’s Club in Denmark and her short fiction has appeared in Good Works: Prose and Poetry by Ex-Pat Women in Denmark.

Where to find Diana Deverell online

Books

China Box
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers, Book 4. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 71,230. Language: English. Originally Published: June 14, 2016 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Where do you go when your spirit dies and you learn your best isn’t good enough? 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 specialist knew she’d also lost her touch. She exiled herself to tiny US embassies far from Washington, doing routine admin work that numbs her. The highlight of her day is...
Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 6. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,080. Language: English. Originally Published: September 27, 2017 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Holiday, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
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...
Lonesome Whistle: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 18. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,790. Language: English. Originally Published: January 6, 2021 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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...
Warm Bodies in a Cold War: A Short Story featuring Casey Collins
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 12,460. Language: English. Originally Published: April 7, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
Everything starts somewhere . . . . For Casey Collins, that somewhere was the chillier side of the Iron Curtain one January night in 1986. On a deserted highway in rural Poland, her VW slams into a wild boar. He's road kill, she's stuck in a ditch, and the temperature's headed down, down, down. To keep them both from freezing to death, the 27-year-old career diplomat cajoles Matt, her Marine...
Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 1. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 78,470. Language: English. Originally Published: December 13, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd confronts a Warsaw crime boss, a New York City bounty hunter, and a Homeland Security agent cowboying in the middle of the North Sea, among others. She solves crimes ranging from human trafficking to health care fraud, illegal sports betting, nuclear smuggling, and more. Foiling devious plots from Silicon Valley to Ulan Bator, Dawna shuts down not only the FBI's...
Silicon Valley Tango: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 12. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,410. Language: English. Originally Published: March 10, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd wants to know why—and how—an unknown hacker is cyber-stalking an obscure software engineer in the Bay Area. Hacking's not Dawna's specialty. But her sister Bettijean is the engineer whose life and livelihood are on the line. And nobody messes with Dawna's family. She'll use every trick in her FBI book to find who's harming Bettijean. Even so, can a low-tech...
Opening Day, 1954: A Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 62,730. Language: English. Originally Published: July 31, 2019 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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...
Lay Bare the Lie
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers, Book 6. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 57,480. Language: English. Originally Published: July 1, 2019 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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...
Judge Me Not
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers, Book 4. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 62,930. Language: English. Originally Published: December 5, 2016 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Appeals lawyer Nora Dockson might be able to free Silvia Simon from prison. But why should she try? An ex-con herself, Nora broke free from her trailer park roots and went to law school. She works only for convicted felons. Silvia, a young single mother, insists she's not guilty of arson-murder. But investigators determined only she could have started the fire. The prosecutor argued that Silvia...
Night on Fire
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 108,200. Language: English. Originally Published: April 7, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Deverell's solid second Casey Collins novel [has] engaging narrative, gripping mystery, and wily plot twists." (Publishers Weekly) A State Department specialist fighting terror, Casey Collins is in Denmark to buy back Stinger missiles being sold on the black market. But a dead body deposited in her Copenhagen apartment—the apparent victim of a local turf war between rival motorcycle gangs—has...
Black Powder Boogie: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 7. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,660. Language: English. Originally Published: October 24, 2019 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd wants to have a blast—literally. Based at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, she's exploding a car bomb and blowing up the crumbling pre-War building beside it. The ambo himself will give a press conference as part of the kickoff event for the Academy's new post-blast investigation seminar. A big deal, and if anything goes wrong, her FBI...
Shaken, Not Stirred: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 4. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,580. Language: English. Originally Published: August 29, 2016 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Hoping to heal her broken heart, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd takes a break from busting bad guys to vacation at SpyGirl Fantasy Camp. But the two Russian mobsters waiting for her aren't actors pretending they're bad. These goons plan to bust her ticker for good. A story that answers the simple question: Does a hardboiled FBI agent ever get to have fun? As a bonus, included with this story...
Payback is a Bitch: A Bella Hinton Short Story
Series: Bella Hinton political thrillers, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,690. Language: English. Originally Published: January 3, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Security professional Bella Hinton makes a routine visit to the US Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh and ends up trapped the rear seat of her armored vehicle, surrounded by four body guards prepared to sell her to ISIS. "Payback is a Bitch" was named a Distinguished Mystery of 2018 by Otto Penzler, editor of the The Best American Mystery Stories series. The story sets the stage for Bella's breakout...
Dallas Hoedown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 8. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,210. Language: English. Originally Published: March 9, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd played basketball all four years at the University of Texas. Exactly the right cover to get herself hired by a shady medical equipment manufacturer. Former college cheerleaders and athletes make up big pharma's hottest sales force. Winning personalities matter more than scientific training. The company's device tested safe for asthma patients. Not for women with...
Dirty Bop to Blighty: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 14. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,630. Language: English. Originally Published: April 22, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Adventure » Sea adventures
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...
Hear My Plea
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 79,770. Language: English. Originally Published: November 11, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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...
Murder, Ken Kesey, and Me: A Mystery Laced with Humor
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 57,730. Language: English. Originally Published: December 12, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Media tie-in
An indie company comes to Oregon to film Acid Test: The Life of Ken Kesey. Eugene location scout Estrella "Star" Stevens stumbles over a dead body and into the crushing embrace of the FBI. She's forced to join their risky investigation of gangland boss and titty bar owner Oscar Quarry. Narrowly escaping death, she's suddenly living her own movie. Will she be a star? Or the next corpse? And...
Gone Gold: A Short Story
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,360. Language: English. Originally Published: March 4, 2021 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Washington State Trooper Captain Kent Harper desperately needs hands-on experience with Spokane County's updated electronic Pawn Database System. To get it, he'll investigate a minor crime way below his pay grade. The bonus is that he can also do a favor for his long-time lover Nora Dockson. A veteran cop, Kent's sure he'll identify the culprit who stole from LaNoir Kennedy, owner of Nora's...
Clean and Godly in Denmark: A Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,560. Language: English. Originally Published: January 20, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
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. Not hard to imagine that arrangement going fatally wrong...
Spokane Sting: A Short Story
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,630. Language: English. Originally Published: January 4, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural
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...
Boot Scoot: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 5. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,340. Language: English. Originally Published: May 7, 2017 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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...
Organ Trade Off: A Noir Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,550. Language: English. Originally Published: January 5, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
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? A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you the...
Help Me Nora
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 75,130. Language: English. Originally Published: April 1, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
Lawyer Nora Dockson swore to tell the truth. But will she stick to her oath when only deception can save her innocent client? An ex-con, Nora pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals attorney. She works only for convicted felons, rescuing innocents trapped by the flawed process that put them behind bars. For seven years, she's tried to convince the court that her client didn't...
The Nora Dockson Trilogy * Help Me Nora * Right the Wrong * Hear My Plea
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers, Book 123. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 228,890. Language: English. Originally Published: September 23, 2017 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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...
Hazmat Heel-and-Toe: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 10. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,420. Language: English. Originally Published: March 9, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd teams up with a long haul trucker to nail a rogue Department of Transportation safety inspector. The crooked government employee extorts money from drivers of Middle Eastern appearance who haul hazardous materials through New Jersey. Under cover as the trucker's big-haired flashy wife, Dawna has her ears on alert when the inspector leads up to his payoff demand...
Right the Wrong
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 74,420. Language: English. Originally Published: March 25, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
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...
Mercy Find Me: A Derringer Award Finalist Short Story
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,320. Language: English. Originally Published: October 19, 2019 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Oregon correctional center inmate Winnie Yates is serving mandatory minimum sentences adding up to nineteen years and two months. Locked up from age twenty until she turns thirty-nine. A harsh punishment when her victim came through the so-called home invasion with only a bruise on her forehead. Winnie's appeal failed but today she has a chance to make a better deal. Her reward will be...
Shut Your Eyes and You'll Be Fine: A Casey Collins Short Story
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,160. Language: English. Originally Published: January 4, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
Junior diplomat Casey Collins confronts savagery and danger in war-torn El Salvador. How will she deal with the fear? Her nature gives her only two choices. Go numb and avoid trouble. Or live life with every nerve end tingling … A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you a short and compelling story about gut...
Hokey Pokey Bucuresti: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 17. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,720. Language: English. Originally Published: August 10, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd goes undercover in Romania to bust a criminal gang luring impoverished young women into sexual slavery. Posing with Police Cadet Stela Dragomir as penniless sisters seeking hotel-maid jobs in Western Europe, the two law enforcement agents hope to force Vlad, the gang's sleazy recruiter, to expose the organization's bosses. A high-stakes operation with one big...
Turquoise Trail: A Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,610. Language: English. Originally Published: November 4, 2019 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Paranormal
Shane Harrison lives in rural New Mexico, but he's distracted from the magical beauty of his surroundings by worries about his excess body hair and overactive sweat glands, traits shared by his dad and his little brother. Worse, today his dad fell off the wagon again and Shane fears he and his little brother may have inherited the alcoholism gene along with the other traits. Shane wants to make...
Mongol Mash: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 15. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,330. Language: English. Originally Published: April 24, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
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...
In Plain Sight: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 14,010. Language: English. Originally Published: December 14, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Christian » Amish & Mennonite, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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...
The Casey Collins Trilogy*12 Drummers Drumming*Night on Fire*East Past Warsaw
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers, Book 123. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 271,080. Language: English. Originally Published: April 7, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Three full-length thrillers in one ebook--get them all for a savings of more than fifty percent! This trilogy features Casey Collins, a State Department specialist in the war on terror. Join Casey on a twisting ride through post-Cold War Europe as she's drawn off her desk job and into action not once--but three times. 12 Drummers Drumming "will keep you on your toes . . . with a polish and...
Texas Two-Step: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 13. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,610. Language: English. Originally Published: March 10, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Every year, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd gets sucked in by March Madness. The fever strikes harder when the Big Dance is set in Texas. With the Final Four happening on her own turf, Dawna has to take leave from the Bureau and fly home. Lucky for Lupe, her former teammate, now coaching women's basketball at an East Texas college. Lupe's team is headed for the tournament. And Lupe worries a...
Latin Groove: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 11. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,720. Language: English. Originally Published: March 10, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
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...
Bitch Out of Hell
Series: Bella Hinton political thrillers, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 58,020. Language: English. Originally Published: January 19, 2018 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
Security pro Bella Hinton is relentless in pursuing the truth. Does that make her a bitch? No. It makes her the best reason to read this suspenseful thriller." (five-star reader review) 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...
Dubstep: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 9. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,650. Language: English. Originally Published: March 9, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
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...
Heart Failure
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,720. Language: English. Originally Published: August 7, 2017 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
Steve’s only 15 when his favorite lead singer dies. That loss makes him fear another. Older brother Tom is in the army, deployed to a war zone an ocean away. In only sixty days, Tom’s due home, but will he make it alive? And how can a kid brother help a soldier stay safe? The only tool Steve has is the music they both love. This short story remembers the death of the Doors’ Jim Morrison in 1971...
East Past Warsaw
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 79,030. Language: English. Originally Published: April 7, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
"a tale that makes you pray it's fiction." (S.E. Warwick, mystery reviewer) Casey Collins is a State Department specialist in the war on terror. En route to Berlin for an international conference, a crushing series of events force her into the field in pursuit of a rogue nuclear physicist with a supply of stolen plutonium bound for North Korea. From twilight in the long-term parking lot at...
Hungarian Dance No. 5: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 16. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,960. Language: English. Originally Published: April 22, 2020 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
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...
No Place for an Honest Woman
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 49,980. Language: English. Originally Published: April 7, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Candor can get you killed in Cold War Poland. The first thing junior diplomat Casey Collins must learn is to be an excellent liar. Assigned to the American embassy in Warsaw, Casey can't lie like the Marine Security Guard who sweet-talks his way into her bed. The deceitful jarhead dumps her and breaks the embassy's SLEEP NATO rule with a beautiful Polish woman who is herself a skillful liar...
Open the Door
Series: Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers, Book 5. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 62,720. Language: English. Originally Published: June 1, 2017 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
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...
Con Prince of Copenhagen: A Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,520. Language: English. Originally Published: September 24, 2017 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Life dropped teenage Toby Nielsen cold turkey into a Danish school. On day two of this adventure, he ends up on a city bus speeding away from his classmates and the place he lives. He's got no ticket, no clue where he's headed, and no taxi fare. His gift of gab works only in English. Clever and silver-tongued, he ruled his Oregon school. But here, he can't talk people into letting him do as he...
Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story
Series: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,610. Language: English. Originally Published: July 25, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Dawna's hot on the trail of a renegade NSA contractor. Mickey Cartwright "blew the whistle" on US cyber surveillance of European leaders and was charged with espionage. Now, he's emerged from his Russian sanctuary to testify at a European Justice Court. The Court is meeting secretly in Poland a few miles from the Russian border. Dawna manages to snatch her target and escape into a December...
Crete Robbers: A Casey Collins Short Story
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,820. Language: English. Originally Published: June 4, 2021 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
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...
12 Drummers Drumming
Series: Casey Collins International Thrillers, Book 1. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 87,720. Language: English. Originally Published: April 7, 2015 by Sorrel Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
"Chilling Suspense and heated passion—A brilliant debut." (Barbara Parker, Edgar-finalist author of Suspicion of Innocence) Ten years after the Lockerbie explosion, a New York-bound flight falls out of the sky over Scotland and rips a hole in Casey Collins's heart. Her lover was on board that plane and the State Department specialist in the war on terror flies to Europe to discover who killed...

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