Diana Deverell: 35 books

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...

Sometimes, you gotta be bad. Steal away with this bundle of thieves and miscreants and join them on their criminal adventures! From burglars to assassins, grifters to con artists, these are mysteries from the other side, from the criminal point-of-view. Break some rules and snag the...

Forget the old adage that cautions against wishing. The sixteen stories in this latest Fiction River contain just the right amount of heart, magic, pathos, and even hope. From a daughter hoping to save her father with a crash-course in wishery to an unfortunate victim at the wrong end of someone else’s...

Justice comes in many forms. And the wide variety of stories presented in this latest volume of Fiction River make that case. Of the fifteen powerful stories in this volume, some will twist your heart, others will pound you in the gut, and still others will make you feel like the world has meaning....

The relentless ticking of a clock as time slips away marks the breathless pace of these remarkable stories. In Fiction River’s third edition of its Pulse Pounders series, these sixteen authors push the envelope of the thriller form. From a man desperately searching for his missing little girl to...

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 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...

In this latest volume of Fiction River, editor Dean Wesley Smith pulls together an eclectic but cohesive group of stories filled with difficult decisions. From a man who must question the line between justice and vengeance to a teenage fixer fighting hypocrisy to a post-apocalyptic survivor’s mission...

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...

“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...

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...

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,...

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...

“Boot Scoot” was a 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...

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...