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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 as lead in the political thriller Bitch
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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.
3) Judge Me Not
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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 set it to kill her daughter.
Was he wrong? Or is Silvia...
4) 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 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,...
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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 peeled when the inspector leads up to his payoff demand. Until beribboned Precious, the third member of the team...
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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 histories of preterm labor. Though anecdotal evidence...
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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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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 also any crook fool enough to mess with...
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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 betting scandal is brewing around a key player.Will illegal...
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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 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 Texan hope to prevail in Silicon Valley? A Derringer and Macavity...
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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 risk. Dawna doesn't speak a word of Romanian. Pretending...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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