The Casey Collins Trilogy

Praise for Diana Deverell’s international thrillers 12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING“Chilling suspense and heated passions—a brilliant debut.” Barbara Parker, Edgar-Finalist author of Suspicion of Innocence “Diana Deverell was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in such place as San Salvador and Poland. So when she has the central character of her tough and moving debut thriller give us inside details of a State Department agency dedicated to fighting terrorists, they have the smack and tang of reality. . . . a milieu worthy of the best of Len Deighton, if not John LeCarre. With those and other masters of the espionage genre making increasingly rare appearances these days, it’s good to have someone as skilled as Deverell arriving so stylishly on the scene.” Dick Adler, Mystery Reviewer “Non-stop suspense and an intriguing plot that will keep you guessing until the end. 12 Drummers Drumming is a splendid first novel . . . Highly recommended.” Booked for Murder, Ltd. mystery book store—Mary Helen Becker “An electrifying political thriller . . .a believable whirlwind international chase.” Huntsville Times “12 Drummers Drumming is a dynamite action thriller. It kept me up well past my bedtime. I could not put it down. Had to find out how Casey Collins, its FSO heroine, thwarts a Libyan terrorist plot. Since I served in San Salvador with Diana quite a while ago, I could be biased in my favorable appraisal of her book, but I don’t think so. She writes in the first person, purporting still to be a FSO, working in S/CT, fighting terrorism. Drawing lightly on her State Department background and heavily on a vivid imagination, her tale of adventure is gripping . . . all of this is lightly spiced with s*x and heavily seasoned with violent deaths, mostly, but not entirely, of bad guys. All in all, the Foreign Service’s loss of Diana Deverell is a great gain for readers of international thrillers. Best of all, she is working on a new novel.” Deane R. Hinton, Career Ambassador (ret.) “She writes with a polish and a flair that hold nothing back in the areas of terror, torture and adventure as well as in more tender worlds of love and loyalties. . . .” National Public Radio NIGHT ON FIRE“. . . a thriller that grips rather than merely interests, 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.” Statesman Journal (Oregon) “Thanks to sharp storytelling, the intertwining subplots feed seamlessly into the main plot line, and Deverell’s fine-tuned first-person narration showcases Casey’s intelligence and emotional heft to equally involving effect.” Publishers Weekly “Deverell’s skill at spinning a complex and twisted plot remains undiminished from 12 Drummers Drumming . . . ” Crescent Blues “Deverell successfully juggles at least three distinct plot lines throughout the book. A number of off-the-beaten track foreign locations, showdowns and passionate interludes are deftly detailed before Deverell pulls everything neatly together at the end.” The Philadelphia City Paper “Diana Deverell has once again taken us to the slippery and dangerous place where criminals, terrorists, cops, spies and diplomats collude and connive and deceive. The characters guiding us are like the ones she knows from her own experience—good, but flawed people confused and frustrated by moral, legal and bureaucratic conundrums.” Donald R. Hamilton, former Deputy Director of the State Department’s Counterterrorism Office EAST PAST WARSAW“In the third novel-length outing of Casey Collins and her so-improbable-they-have-to-be-real cohorts Diana Deverell has once again crafted a tale that makes you pray it’s fiction. “Unlike James Bond who dashed from international crisis to international crisis with nary a thought to hearth and home, Casey Collins, like all women, juggles concerns about people in her life with the demands of her job. A beloved father in terrifying thrall to Alzheimer’s disease, a godson just recovering from radiation-induced leukemia, a dear friend in late pregnancy, and a lover who has grown distant compete for Casey’s attention with stolen plutonium probably bound for the insanity that passes for logic in North Korea. Casey knows all too well that the fall of the Soviet Union left thousands of nuclear warheads, and other fissionable materials, under the control of unscrupulous and desperate people who are only too happy to sell to the highest bidder. “Women take center stage in East Past Warsaw, on both sides of the good/bad equation. The scope and importance of the action and issues involved in all of Deverell’s books at first blush seem to say ‘torn from the headlines’. In reality, they are the details behind the two paragraph story buried on page 27 of your local paper whose lead reads something like ‘stolen plutonium, believed bound for North Korea, has been recovered by agents of (a very anonymous sounding international agency)’.” S.E. Warwick, Mystery Reviewer CHINA BOXA 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) BITCH OUT OF HELLSecurity professional Bella Hinton takes a star turn in Diana’s new political thriller set in Washington, DC. “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.” (Reader review) “Diana Deverell’s newest book 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) “. . . 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) # # #For more information about Diana’s thrillers, visit her website.