Diana Deverell

An ex-con, Nora Dockson has a soft spot for underdogs like her former cellmate. She got her law degree so she could rescue her ex-cellie and others treated unfairly by a flawed system. So why has Wesley Mitchell jumped 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...

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...

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...

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 hiding somewhere inside the 150-acre park. Youthful...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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 a family emergency pulls her away from the case and back...

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?