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 ready to fight this legal battle—and it’s one she has to win . . . A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell has “a gift that grabs the reader so one cares about every character in the story” (reader review). In Open the Door, Diana brings you an unforgettable heroine, a minefield of a plot, and an entertaining supporting cast. “The intense legal drama will keep you riveted to the page, but Nora’s honest emotions are what you’ll remember when you finish the last paragraph. This is a pivotal book in this series and not to be missed!” (Reader review) Buy Open the Door today and immerse yourself in a compelling, gritty legal thriller.

Lawyer Nora Dockson swore to tell the truth. But will she stick to her oath when only deception can save her innocent client? An ex-con, Nora pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals attorney. She works only for convicted felons, rescuing innocents trapped by the flawed process that put them behind bars. For seven years, she’s tried to convince the court that her client didn’t kill the victim. She failed again today. She thinks the real murderer died five years ago. Truth is powerful. How difficult can it be to dig it out? So hard, it may cost her everything . . . . Help Me Nora is “a compelling gritty novel. I could not put it down and found the legal background fascinating.” (Goodreads review) A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you an intriguing heroine and an ongoing cast of entertaining characters in her engaging legal thrillers. Buy Help Me Nora today and start reading this “fascinating series” (CrimeFiction.FM).

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 felons but not all are guilty of murder. Struggling to make a broken system free the innocent, she forces herself to go back inside. Though she knows that a prison can crush the soul of anyone who enters . . . . Right the Wrong is “an engaging legal thriller . . . in what I hope will be a long-running series.” (Stephen Campbell, CrimeFiction.FM) A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you an intriguing heroine and an ongoing cast of entertaining characters in her gripping legal thrillers. Buy Right the Wrong today and enjoy the series.

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. Help Me Nora is “a compelling gritty novel. I could not put it down and found the legal background fascinating.” (Goodreads review) Right the Wrong is “an engaging legal thriller . . . in what I hope will be a long-running series.” (Stephen Campbell, CrimeFiction.FM)  Readers of Hear My Plea praise the “timely plot, filled with delicious intrigue and backbiting.”  A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell has “a gift that grabs the reader so one cares about every character in the story” (reader review). Buy The Nora Dockson Trilogy for a gripping ride with an unforgettable protagonist.

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.

An ex-con, Nora Dockson has a soft spot for underdogs. So how did police officer Wesley Mitchell jump 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 of two hot-blooded murders. Mitchell’s no innocent. He deserves his 65-year prison sentence. But did the feds fight dirty to convict him? Nora has to check it out. What she discovers will challenge all she believes . . . . Readers of Hear My Plea praise the “timely plot, filled with delicious intrigue and backbiting.” A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you an engaging heroine and an ongoing cast of interesting characters in her gripping legal thrillers. Buy Hear My Plea today and enjoy a fascinating series.

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’ve started the fire. The prosecutor argued that Silvia set it to kill her daughter. Was he wrong? Or is Silvia lying? Trying to make sense of what happened, Nora ends up at the murky junction where arson myths and bad-mother stereotypes collide with modern science. Piecing together Silvia’s story, Nora discovers more of her own . . . A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell has “a gift that grabs the reader so one cares about every character in the story” (reader review). In Judge Me Not, Diana brings you an intriguing heroine, a suspenseful plot, and an entertaining supporting cast. “A great character, a great series—I highly recommend it to people.” (Stephen Campbell, CrimeFiction.FM) Buy Judge Me Not today and enjoy this captivating series of legal thrillers.

 “. . . 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 with a supply of stolen plutonium bound for North Korea. From twilight in the long-term parking lot at Dulles Airport to a sunlit afternoon in a Belarus orchard, the action winds breathlessly eastward as Casey Collins and her small band of unlikely cohorts struggle to contain a nuclear evil let loose when the Cold War ended. A nonstop international thriller, East Past Warsaw is an “intricate yet realistic look at post-Cold War Europe.” (Reader review)  A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for her “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you an all-too-human heroine dealing with real-world problems. Buy East Past Warsaw today and take a ride with Casey Collins.

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 dumps her and breaks the embassy's SLEEP NATO rule with a beautiful Polish woman who is herself a skillful liar. But nobody can match the senior Polish intelligence agent who whispers to Casey that she's the only person positioned to save Americans scheduled to be blown up by terrorists working for Libya's dictator. When Casey turns him down, the best liars of all—from her own CIA—show up to bully her into playing along. A Macavity Award nominee acclaimed for her “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you a suspenseful espionage thriller, filled with Cold War intrigue and introducing a young, engaging heroine. Buy No Place for an Honest Woman today and get a head start on the four volumes in the exciting Casey Collins international thriller series.

“Deverell's solid second Casey Collins novel [has] engaging narrative, gripping mystery, and wily plot twists.” (Publishers Weekly) A State Department specialist fighting terror, Casey Collins is in Denmark to buy back Stinger missiles being sold on the black market. But a dead body deposited in her Copenhagen apartment—the apparent victim of a local turf war between rival motorcycle gangs—has suddenly placed her delicate mission in jeopardy. A lone female operative, Casey now stands exposed in the fiery blaze of a midnight sun . . . . Night on Fire is “a thriller that grabs you by the throat and makes you come along for the ride. And with Deverell in the driver's seat, the ride is unforgettable.” (The Statesman-Journal) Buy Night on Fire today and explore the “slippery and dangerous place where criminals, terrorists, cops, spies and diplomats collude and connive and deceive.” (Donald R. Hamilton, former Deputy Director of the State Department’s Counterterrorism Office)

“Chilling Suspense and heated passion—A brilliant debut.” (Barbara Parker, Edgar-finalist author of Suspicion of Innocence) Ten years after the Lockerbie explosion, a New York-bound flight falls out of the sky over Scotland and rips a hole in Casey Collins’s heart. Her lover was on board that plane and the State Department specialist in the war on terror flies to Europe to discover who killed him.  Swiftly caught up in a twisted series of events that make her a suspect in the bombing, she becomes a fugitive whose only protection is a small band of skilled agents operating outside the law. A multi-leveled web of deception tightens around her, forcing her to rely on people she neither knows nor trusts . . . . 12 Drummers Drumming is “a thriller which will keep you on your toes . . . with a polish and flair that holds nothing back in the areas of terror, torture, and adventure, as well as in more tender worlds of love and loyalties.” (National Public Radio). “A title to add to your short list of espionage stories with female protagonists.” (Booklist) Buy 12 Drummers Drumming today and start reading this fast-paced suspense series.

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 to 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 Club of Dhaka, waving his cane in her face, and telling her that her godson is falling into a Chinese honey trap. Casey’s made it clear that she won’t try again to save the world. But she’s loved Woody Hinton from the moment he was born thirty years ago. She can’t deny she’s the right woman for the job. Woody’s ruining his life in exactly the same way she ruined hers. Can she stop him before it’s too late? A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for her “sharp story telling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings her all-too-human heroine Casey Collins back to the US and into action as “an intricate chess match of espionage, international wheeling-dealing, and love plays out in Washington and Silicon Valley.” (Reader review) Buy China Box today and discover this suspenseful series of non-stop international thrillers.

Three full-length thrillers in one ebook--get them all for a savings of more than fifty percent! This trilogy features Casey Collins, a State Department specialist in the war on terror. Join Casey on a twisting ride through post-Cold War Europe as she's drawn off her desk job and into action not once—but three times. 12 Drummers Drumming “will keep you on your toes . . . with a polish and flair that holds nothing back in the areas of terror, torture, and adventure, as well as in more tender worlds of love and loyalties.” (National Public Radio). “A title to add to your short list of espionage stories with female protagonists.” (Booklist) Night on Fire “grabs you by the throat and makes you come along for the ride. And with Deverell in the driver's seat, the ride is unforgettable.” (The Statesman-Journal) East Past Warsaw is “a tale that makes you pray it’s fiction.” (S.E. Warwick, mystery reviewer) En route to Berlin for an international conference, a crushing series of events force Casey into the field in pursuit of a rogue nuclear physicist with a supply of stolen plutonium bound for North Korea. A Macavity Award nominee acclaimed for her “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you an all-too-human heroine dealing with real-world problems. Buy the Casey Collins Trilogy today and begin an adventure with Casey that continues into the present in China Box, the fourth book in the series.

Security pro Bella Hinton is “relentless in pursuing the truth. Does that make her a bitch? No. It makes her the best reason to read this suspenseful thriller.” (five-star reader review) Seven years ago, a private company headhunted Bella away from her career job keeping State Department employees safe. She got the company’s runaway cowboy culture under control. But in Washington today, diplomacy is out and mercenary armies are in. Bella’s methods aren’t profitable. The greedheads in charge agree she has to go. They figure getting rid of the old bitch will be easy. Piss-poor at threat assessment is how Bella assesses them. She’ll prove she’s better. Deverell’s explosive new political thriller is a “. . . a delightfully humorous and suspenseful read with realistic characters . . . and the plot twists and weaves itself into a satisfying conclusion.” (Kings River Life) Buy Bitch Out of Hell today. You’ll love hearing this story told in Bella’s own salty words.