When a plane explodes shortly after taking off from Europe, Casey Collins, a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, believes her lover was on the plane, but when she arrives in Europe to uncover the truth, she is plunged into a world of fear and is accused of...
NO DARKNESS TO HIDE IN A U.S. Foreign Service officer specializing in counterterrorism, Casey Collins is in Denmark to locate and recover missing Stinger missiles that are being offered on the black market. But a dead body deposited in her Copenha...
“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 ...
Everything starts somewhere . . . .
For Casey Collins, that somewhere was the chillier side of the Iron Curtain one January night in 1986.
On a deserted highway in rural Poland, her VW slams into a wild boar. He's road kill, she's stuc...
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 h...
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...
An indie company comes to Oregon to film Acid Test: The Life of Ken Kesey. Eugene location scout Estrella “Star” Stevens stumbles over a dead body and into the crushing embrace of the FBI. She's forced to join their risky investigation of ganglan...
Steve’s only fifteen when his favorite lead singer dies. That loss makes him fear another.Older brother Tom is in the army, deployed to a war zone an ocean away. In sixty days, Tom’s due home, but will he make it alive? And how can a kid brother ...
Fleeing the cops, a wily Ponzi-schemer disguised in a black hat and chin whiskers is hiding among the Plain Folk wintering in a Sarasota suburb nicknamed “the Amish Las Vegas.”Trying to smoke out the fugitive, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd tan...
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, rescuin...
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 pett...
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 clie...
An earthquake didn’t break them. Old demons only tested and deepened their commitment. Even a four-year-old couldn’t tear them apart. Now Anna and Lily Kaklis embrace a new adventure: adding to their family. As usual, the timing couldn’t be bet...
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 y...
“Boot Scoot” was a finalist for the 2003 Macavity Award for best mystery short story.
Dawna Shepherd loves her family, working as an FBI Special Agent, and playing basketball.
She’s celebrating Christmas in her home town when a b...
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 ins...
Life dropped teenage Toby Nielsen cold turkey into a Danish school. On day two of this adventure, he ends up on a city bus speeding away from his classmates and the place he lives. He’s got no ticket, no clue where he’s headed, and no taxi fare.H...
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 Bell...
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 Califo...
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 reconstructe...
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd wants to have a blast—literally. Based at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, she's exploding a car bomb and blowing up the crumbling pre-War building beside it. The ambo himself will give a p...
Oregon correctional center inmate Winnie Yates is serving mandatory minimum sentences adding up to nineteen years and two months. Locked up from age twenty until she turns thirty-nine.A harsh punishment when her victim came through the so-called home...
Shane Harrison lives in rural New Mexico, but he’s distracted from the magical beauty of his surroundings by worries about his excess body hair and overactive sweat glands, traits shared by his dad and his little brother.Worse, today his dad fell o...
Laugh with Odin, the robot vacuum cleaner who tells you how the Danish government supplies senior citizens with nonhuman assistance so they can live independently.Odin is a tireless worker and his elderly client relies on him totally. She treats him ...
A sharp and deadly femme fatale with a talent for poker, a weakness for men, and a bum kidney.Livvie's gambling her way to a life-saving transplant.Using her sweetheart Neal's body parts as the stakes.Neal antes up. He loves Livvie.But how much does ...
Security professional Bella Hinton makes a routine visit to the US Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh and ends up trapped the rear seat of her armored vehicle, surrounded by four body guards prepared to sell her to ISIS.Payback is a Bitch was named a Disti...
Junior diplomat Casey Collins confronts savagery and danger in war-torn El Salvador. How will she deal with the fear?Her nature gives her only two choices.Go numb and avoid trouble.Or live life with every nerve end tingling …A Derringer and Ma...
Rookie Washington State Trooper Andrea Clark, a supporting player in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series, takes charge in this short mystery story.Underage college students and other kids in car-dependent Spokane County are using fake IDs to...
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd played basketball all four years at the University of Texas. Exactly the right cover to get herself hired by a shady medical equipment manufacturer.Former college cheerleaders and athletes make up big pharma's hottest...
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd teams up with a long haul trucker to nail a rogue Department of Transportation safety inspector. The crooked government employee extorts money from drivers of Middle Eastern appearance who haul hazardous materials thr...
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.Lati...
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd wants to know why—and how—an unknown hacker is cyber-stalking an obscure software engineer in the Bay Area.Hacking's not Dawna's specialty.But her sister Bettijean is the engineer whose life and livelihood...
Every year, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd gets sucked in by March Madness.The fever strikes harder when the Big Dance is set in Texas.With the Final Four happening on her own turf, Dawna has to take leave from the Bureau and fly home.Lucky for Lup...
Her BS detector clicking madly, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd discovers a rat on the Danish ferry sailing from Norway to England. Not a stinky rodent, but a completely odorless Homeland Security Agent with a hidden agenda. Unlike the eig...
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's teaching at Quantico East, the Bureau's overseas training academy. Tomorrow, she'll stage a mock bank robbery for the Central European cops who are her students. Tonight, though, she's enjoying dinner with the ...
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's training across Siberia with the USA women's junior basketball team. She'll join them on the bench at their next crucial game in the capital of Mongolia. Undercover and unofficial, Dawna acts like a die-hard ho...
FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd goes undercover in Romania to bust a criminal gang luring impoverished young women into sexual slavery. Posing with Police Cadet Stela Dragomir as penniless sisters seeking hotel-maid jobs in Western Europe, the ...
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 ...
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 ...