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Diana Deverell

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 Macavity best short story awards, are in this stellar collection.

A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you twelve short mysteries spanning more than a decade in the maverick agent’s career. Buy Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns and get to know her unique crime-fighting style.

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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries

Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns

Finalist for the 2003 Macavity Award for best mystery short story.

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 going to ruin this holiday for someone she loves.

Can law-abiding Dawna find a way to save Christmas?

A two-time Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell shows a softer side to the hardnosed FBI agent who appears regularly in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

Boot Scoot: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

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.

A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings you two exciting short mysteries. Buy ”In Plain Sight” today and check out Dawna’s action from Florida to Texas.

In Plain Sight: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

“Entertaining spy caper … very real and exciting. ” (Editor and best-selling writer Kevin J. Anderson)

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 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. 

As a bonus, this ebook of “Blown” also includes “Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story” originally published in 2001 in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Dawna's first visit to Poland—but not her last. 

A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings you an exciting short mystery plus a bonus. Buy “Blown” today and enjoy a double treat of international thriller fun!

Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

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.

A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings two exciting mysteries. Buy “Shaken, Not Stirred” and enjoy this powerhouse team in action.

Shaken, Not Stirred: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

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?

A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings you an exciting short mystery.