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 bosses, their lieutenants, and four bodyguards at nearby tables. Instead of bringing three orders of goulash to her table, their waiter and other restaurant staff disappear. Like they know all Hell is about to break loose. What's coming and how can Dawna stop it? A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings you her first published short story featuring the basketball star turned FBI agent. Buy "Hungarian Dance No. 5: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story" and enjoy the first of sixteen adventures starring the hard-charging FBI Special Agent.

Hungarian Dance No. 5: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #16

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 blizzard. But others also have plans for Cartwright. With death at their heels, Dawna and her prisoner dash over snow-capped hills and through frosty woods, desperate to outrun a ruthless pursuer. Editor and best-selling writer Kevin J. Anderson praised "Blown" as an "entertaining spy caper .

Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #3

"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 him. Swiftly caught up in a twisted series of events that make her a suspect in the bombing, she becomes a fugitive whose only protection is a small band of skilled agents operating outside the law. A multi-leveled web of deception tightens around her, forcing her to rely on people she neither knows nor trusts .

12 Drummers Drumming - Casey Collins International Thrillers, #1

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 share a home court?A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you a tale that sprawls across West Texas and tests Dawna's crime-solving power. Buy "Latin Groove: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story" and get up close and personal with the Lone Star State, Texas cops, and down-home crime.

Latin Groove: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #11

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 felons but not all are guilty of murder. Struggling to make a broken system free the innocent, she forces herself to go back inside. Though she knows that a prison can crush the soul of anyone who enters .

Right the Wrong - Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers, #2

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 is "Hungarian Dance No. 5, " the first published story featuring Dawna and her friend, ex-Secret Service Agent Ladyshimarray Harms.

Shaken, Not Stirred: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #4

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 pleases. He can't talk himself out of trouble when he gets caught. A problem because Copenhagen is beyond cool and he wants everything it offers. Toby has to find a way to get over. His own way. Until he owns this place. And he has to start now. Because nobody's born a great con artist. You have to make yourself into one. A Macavity Award nominee acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings you a humorous tale of teenage life. Buy it today and enjoy Toby Nielsen's first published adventure in an international capital.

Con Prince of Copenhagen: A Short Story

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 of her. Dawna's spent the last several months hunting the DB Cooper copycat. Like the original airplane hijacker, the copycat extorted a huge ransom and escaped by parachuting into a mountain wilderness. But now, Dawna has him in her sights. She swiftly figures out how to arrest and remove him from the train at the next stop. But in her quick telcon with her boss in Seattle, he nixes her arrest plan. Instead, an interagency team of cops and commandos will confront the fugitive in Eugene with overwhelming force. All Dawna has to do is keep her eye on the perp until the arrest team takes over. She doesn't argue. She'll do as she's told. Has the veteran FBI agent finally learned to follow orders? Not a chance. A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you an entertaining tale of hot pursuit. Buy "Lonesome Whistle: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story" and ride along as Dawna applies her uniquely ornery crime-solving approach to the case.

Lonesome Whistle: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #18

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 career is toast. But she planned carefully and she's confident she has everything under control. Until her State Department pal Casey Collins who specializes in counterterrorism analysis shows up at the blast site four hours before the event. Followed by the demolition contractor rep who demands a last-minute inspection of the building. What's the disaster they fear will happen? And how high a body count do they predict?Dawna has to find out fast or more than her career will end today. A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings Dawna and Casey together for the first time in this riveting short story. Buy "Black Powder Boogie: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story" and enjoy this exploration of one of the most dangerous jobs on earth.

Black Powder Boogie: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #7

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-wrenching terror. Buy "Shut Your Eyes and You'll Be Fine" to ride along with Casey as she makes up her mind how she'll handle it. A long-awaited glimpse into how Casey's 1982 assignment to Central America shapes her character. And a pivotal introduction to the short story and five thrillers detailing her battle against global terrorism.

Shut Your Eyes and You'll Be Fine: A Casey Collins Short Story - Casey Collins International Thrillers

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 most wanted but any crook fool enough to mess with her family. Eleven of these stories appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. The twelfth is available only in this collection. "Latin Groove, " takes Dawna back to FBI basics-bank robbery-and her home court of Texas. She confronts a bad girl who's sharp as a pistol and carrying one too."Boot Scoot" and "Texas Two-Step, " both nominated for the annual Macavity best short story awards by members of Mystery Readers International, are included in these tales spanning a dozen years of Dawna's FBI career.

Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #1

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 a play to confuse the crooks. Can her scheme work in a crazy adolescent country prone to bizarre klutziness?Will Basia make it safely in and out of court? Or will the only thing under her Christmas tree be an extra-large coffin?First published in 2000, "Polonaise" was Dawna's second appearance in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Later adventures are collected in Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns. Dawna also plays a supporting role Diana Deverell's new political thriller, Bitch Out of Hell. A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings you an exciting short mystery. Buy "Polonaise" now and take a holiday in Poland!

Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #6

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 well. The team won't win in Ulan Bator unless the relentless attacks stop. Dawna keeps an eye out for Alyssa while she struggles to identify the troublemaker in the jam-packed cars of the Trans-Mongolian Railway. A tougher job when she's targeted by pair of pickpockets riding the same train. At the last stop before the Mongolian border, Dawna fights off the two thugs on the platform and she misses the moment when Alyssa is injured during practice nearby. Was the foiled robbery really a well-timed distraction? Is the plot against Alyssa more complex and dangerous than it first appeared? Alyssa's already off her game. Can Dawna crack this case before the player ends up out of the game forever? A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you an action-packed story in an exotic locale. Buy "Mongol Mash: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story" today and make an unforgettable journey on one of the world's most famous trains.

Mongol Mash: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story - FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #15

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?Bonus story: this ebook also includes "Boot Scoot" in which Dawna first meets Fugitive Team Leader O'Brien. Both short stories first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. All of Dawna's earlier stories are collected in Run & Gun: 12 Tales of Girls with Guns, an ebook by Diana Deverell. Dawna's latest adventure, "Blown, " is also available as an ebook short story.

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