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

    By Diana Deverell

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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 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSorrel Press
    Release dateMar 10, 2020
    ISBN9781393634133
    Latin Groove: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #11
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    Diana Deverell

    Diana Deverell has published seven novels, a short fiction collection, and many short stories. Her latest project is a series of legal thrillers set in Spokane and featuring Nora Dockson, a lawyer who specializes in appeal of life imprisonment and death penalty sentences. The first, Help Me Nora, was released in July, 2014. The second, Right the Wrong, was released in March, 2015. The third book will be published in late 2015. For the latest update, visit Diana at www.dianadeverell.com Diana made her debut as a novelist in 1998 with a series of international thrillers featuring State Department counterterrorist analyst Kathryn “Casey” Collins: 12 Drummers Drumming, Night on Fire, and East Past Warsaw. The three novels are also available in a single ebook, The Casey Collins Trilogy. Diana’s short story, "Warm Bodies in a Cold War", originally published in 1996 under a different title, introduced Casey to the readership of the Foreign Service Journal. The prequel No Place for an Honest Woman expanded on Casey’s early career. The story and all four thrillers are now available as individual ebooks. In 2000, Diana’s short fiction starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd started making regular appearances in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Her mystery collection, Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns includes eleven Dawna Shepherd stories first published by Alfred Hitchcock, plus all-new “Latin Groove”. Both the collection and “In Plain Sight,” her 2013 mystery, are available in e-editions. Dawna’s latest adventure, “Blown,” appeared in the Kobo Special Edition of Pulse Pounders, the Januaury 2015 issue of Fiction River anthology. In 2012, Diana released her comic mystery novel, Murder, Ken Kesey, and Me as an ebook. Other digital editions include "Heart Failure", a short story set on the day Jim Morrison died, written to order for a publisher of textbooks for Danish teens learning English. Diana is a member (and past board member) of the International Association of Crime Writers. She belongs to the American Women’s Club in Denmark and her short fiction has appeared in Good Works: Prose and Poetry by Ex-Pat Women in Denmark.

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      Latin Groove - Diana Deverell

      LATIN GROOVE: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

      by

      DIANA DEVERELL

      Published by Sorrel Press

      www.SorrelPress.com

      Table of Contents

      LATIN GROOVE: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story by Diana Deverell

      PRAISE FOR DIANA DEVERELL’S FICTION

      LATIN GROOVE: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

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      NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

      OTHER EBOOKS BY DIANA DEVERELL

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      COPYRIGHT

      PRAISE FOR DIANA DEVERELL’S FICTION

      Nora Dockson legal thrillers

      Lay Bare the Lie, the sixth and newest Nora Dockson legal thriller, tops all the others in so many ways. There’s a gripping I-didn’t-see-that-coming plot, the relationships among the continuing characters are evolving, and the descriptions of Oregon and Washington are wonderful. (IBooks reader review)

      Help Me Nora is a compelling gritty novel. I could not put it down and found the legal background fascinating. (Goodreads review)

      A great character, a great series—I highly recommend it to people. (Stephen Campbell, CrimeFiction.FM)

      Deverell has a gift that grabs the reader so one cares about what happens to every character in the story. Once one starts Nora’s clear sighted and brilliant pursuit of justice it’s hard to put the book down! (Amazon reader review)

      The series is great; it’s got the theme of the hard scrabble up-from-poverty Nora doing her battle of wits against a scheming, social-climbing assistant attorney general, laced with tons of good detective work. (Amazon reader review)

      * * *

      Bitch Out of Hell could be a story on the six o’clock news - the outsourcing of America’s military functions, shady corporate dealings, the suspicious death of a whistleblowing board member, and a special prosecutor’s investigation. (iBooks reader review of Bitch Out of Hell)

      Helluva read! I really enjoyed this. I hope there are more books coming. The characters are intriguing, Bella is intelligent and sassy, and the plot is entertaining. (Amazon reader review)

      . . . a delightfully humorous and suspenseful read with realistic characters . . . and the plot twists and weaves itself into a satisfying conclusion. For a fun thriller read, check this out. (Kings River Life review)

      * * *

      Casey Collins international thrillers

      12 Drummers Drumming

      Chilling Suspense and heated passion—A brilliant debut. (Barbara Parker, Edgar-finalist author of Suspicion of Innocence)

      Night on Fire

      Deverell’s solid second Casey Collins novel [has] engaging narrative, gripping mystery, and wily plot twists. (Publishers Weekly)

      East Past Warsaw

      . . . a tale that makes you pray it’s fiction. (S.E. Warwick, mystery reviewer)

      China Box

      an intricate chess match of espionage, international wheeling-dealing, and love plays out in Washington and Silicon Valley. (Amazon reader review)

      LATIN GROOVE: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

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      Back in Budapest training foreign cops at the International Law Enforcement Academy, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd had staged a dozen mock bank robberies.

      On this quiet Monday morning in her hometown of Amity, Texas—at a branch inside Walmart, no less—she was witnessing her first real one.

      And she couldn’t do one thing to stop it.

      A minute earlier, her withdrawal slip dangling from her hand, she’d been idling at the WAIT HERE sign behind a strawberry blonde whose silky hair fell straight to the center of her back.

      Automatically, Dawna’s hand went to her own curly blonde locks. She stopped herself. No quick pat would subdue their riot.

      Sighing, she gave her attention to the only window open at nine o’clock in the morning.

      From six feet away, she read the petite dark-haired teller’s name tag. HI!

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