Help Me Nora

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

HELP ME NORA by Diana Deverell

1 Nora Dockson

2 Marianne Freemantle

3 Nora

4 Kent Harper

5 Channing Palmer

6 Nora

7 Nora

8 Kent

9 Marianne

10 Nora

11 Nora

12 Nora

13 Marianne

14 Nora

15 Channning

16 Nora

17 Nora

18 Kent

19 Nora

20 Channing

21 Nora

22 Kent

23 Nora

24 Marianne

25 Channing

26 Kent

27 Nora

28 Marianne

29 Kent

30 Nora

31 Channing

32 Nora

33 Nora

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

OTHER EBOOKS BY DIANA DEVERELL

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

A Viable Suspect

The headline screamed, “Dark Skin, Death Penalty, and DNA.” Nora whistled.

“Imagine, busting Latinos is getting trendy. Twenty percent of last year’s admissions to death row had Hispanic origins. And the journalist suggests that a similar anti-Latino bias played a role in Gus’s case.”

Channing pointed an unlit cigarette at her. “Plus, he hints strongly that the cops and prosecuting attorney were racists.”

“Realists,” Nora corrected with fake seriousness. “Only a person of color would kill sweet old Faith Underwood.”

Channing glanced at the window as if to confirm it was opened a crack, lit her cigarette, and expelled a cloud of smoke. “The reporter buys your suggestion that she was sweet to Timothy Randall and sweet enough to attract a new suitor. Giving Randall motive. He was jealous of the new boyfriend. Got mad and killed her.”

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Praise for Diana Deverell’s Nora Dockson legal thrillers:

“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!” (sss 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.” (sss reader review)

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

Praise for b***h OUT OF HELL, the new political thriller featuring Bella Hinton

“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.” (sss 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)

Praise for Diana Deverell’s international thrillers

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

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

“A realistic look at post-Cold War Europe.” (Reader review)

In her fourth outing, fifteen years after 9/ll, Casey Collins is back in the US as “an intricate chess match of espionage, international wheeling-dealing, and love plays out in Washington and Silicon Valley.” (Reader review)

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DEDICATION

In memory of Elizabeth Ann Henze

April 24, 1960 – April 16, 2014